The Daily Observer London Desk: Reporter- John Furner
Twitter has restored some previously deleted tweets, seemingly randomly, according to several reports.
The issue seems to mainly affect those who mass-deleted tweets through a third-party service.
One Mastodon user woke up to find that 34,000 of his old tweets were back online after he personally deleted them last year.
A user claiming to be a former Twitter employee said the issue may have originated as a server maintenance mistake: “This sounds a lot like they moved a bunch of servers between data centers and didn’t properly adjust the topology before reinserting them into the network, leading to stale data becoming revived.”
Messages and retweets seem to be affected by the glitch as well, with some direct messages returning from the grave.
Twitter could not be reached for comment.
The glitch comes after CEO Elon Musk announced that Twitter would begin deleting inactive accounts on the site. The process of deleting old and unused accounts may have contributed to previously deleted tweets resurfacing.
Since Mr. Musk fired a good portion of Twitter’s staff last year, the site has been inundated with technical problems, including outages that affected thousands of users.
