scary: i'm told that folks who believed they largely purged their twitter account of tweets are noticing random tweets showing back up in their profile timeline. same for purged DMs. i observed as much on my own account.
check your own to corroborate?
@44 To some extent, this can be attributed to caching.
I went through and deleted all my tweets ages ago, but each time I went back to check on something, I would see a couple that hadn't shown up when I was systemically deleting. This is also related to the API having a time limit for how far back it could mass delete tweets, and Twitter's search having trouble finding old tweets.
It's possible the directionless screwing with the algorithm has made this worse, but it's definitely not a new phenomenon and predates Musk's acquisition.
@LouisIngenthron OTOH, folks like @dntlookbehindu purged everything and are seeing *thousands* of tweets return as young as 2022
@LouisIngenthron there is also the issue of DMs
@44 Has anyone reported something *they know they deleted* coming back? Or are random points of data coming back after mass-deletes?
Because the latter is consistent with caching failures that can be attributed to the incompetence of an overworked and directionless engineering department.
@44 The former is a bit more suspicious. It could mean that something was compromised and had to be rolled back to an earlier backup.
But even so, I'd still lean towards incompetence over malice.
@LouisIngenthron at this point, all evidence points to a bit from column A and bit from B (if judging by other mishaps)
Melon has bragged about just turning stuff off for funsies - look! Twitter still works! That's both malice AND incompetence.
@LouisIngenthron i am aware of both