Some Twitter users’ tweets are disappearing

Posted at 3:09 pm on December 18, 2013 by Jesse M.

Many Twitter users are reporting that tweets — both their own and those they saw posted by other people — have been vanishing into thin air.

We're not sure what happened, but our Bearitone giveaway tweet disappeared. We'll put it up again in a few minutes! #TwitterGlitch
— CanadianOperaCompany (@CanadianOpera) December 18, 2013

https://twitter.com/dellcam/status/413187511905554434

My freakin' tweets with photos are disappearing! D:<
— Oliver Price (@StrawHatSaiyan) December 18, 2013

https://twitter.com/lyndacolarusso/status/413386551066783744

not sure why, but peoples tweets keep disappearing from my feed….ugh wtf.
— ♬ Jess ♡ #JAGarmy ❈ (@Itskindastellar) December 18, 2013

my tweets keep disappearing im so confused get ur shit together twitter
— ava (@sunshineshire) December 18, 2013

Once again, I am experiencing tweet decay. Tweets posted, even re-tweeted, seem to have vanished. Is that happening to others?
— Steve Morgan (@SteveUBC) December 18, 2013

https://twitter.com/0shaakirah8/status/413335471935455232

Why do my tweets keep disappearing? ?
— ℰмιℓу (@emilybrei_53) December 18, 2013

https://twitter.com/scardinosaur/status/412952166220193792

https://twitter.com/krazyost/status/412338477007527936

My tweets he disappearing
— February 7th. (@JustLikeCandii_) December 18, 2013

Anybody else had a problem with tweets disappearing from timelines? I did a second tweet and then the original appeared again. Strange
— Spanish Highs (@spanishhighs) December 18, 2013

@twitter Why are tweets and pictures MAGICALLY disappearing?
— Shireen Sandoval (@ShireenSandoval) December 18, 2013

Is anyone else's #twitter playing up? My tweets seem to be disappearing and reappearing! #notideal
— Becky Warden-Brown (@MissWB) December 18, 2013

https://twitter.com/Des_Brown10/status/413213002285199360

Even U.S. Senators are not immune:

Weird this tweet disappeared.Again,chili eating at my annual holiday book party for Senate class '06. pic.twitter.com/QX4MFaWHWl
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) December 18, 2013

Then there’s this poor guy:

https://twitter.com/nickypoosays/status/413173927762862080

If his tweet about his tweet about disappearing tweets disappears, he’ll be really ticked off.