Deleted Twitter messages are reappearing for some users

Let’s say you deleted some Twitter messages. Perhaps, you just wanted to get rid of some mistakes. Maybe you tweeted something you regret, or you need to delete some tweets that got you in big trouble with your boss. Well, you better check your Twitter feed. Messages you thought were long gone may reappear.

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I noticed the problem when Richard “Dick” Morrell, open-source developer, security expert and former CTO/President smoothwallGlobal internet security powerhouse, said Mastodon,

Last November, I deleted all my tweets. everyone. Then I ran Redact and deleted all my likes, my media and retweets. 38k tweets gone. , woke up today 34k of them were restored by twitterWhich presumably brought a server farm back up.

He was not happy.

And, he wasn’t alone. Morel said that so far more than 400 people have told him that they too have seen their deleted messages restored. He estimated that more than a million previously deleted tweets have reappeared with only people in his circles.

Specifically, people report that they are seeing deleted tweets from November 2022 and earlier reappearing. Morel speculated, “I’m pretty sure they restored the cold storage because all the restored tweets have date-time characteristics.”

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“It sounds a lot like they moved a bunch of servers between datacenters and didn’t adjust the topology properly leading to regeneration of old data, before re-injecting them into the network.”

He added:

The way you set out to do this is the storage guys take it out of the topology with their tools, they wipe the machine with us, the machine is moved, and then it’s reinstalled Is as if it were a brand new machine in the new data center, and only *then* re-inserted into the topology.

Once the deleted messages return, he continued, “What would we expect if they didn’t do it.”

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When asked about Twitter, the company responded with a poop emoji. which, believe it or not, is now Elon Musk’s Favorite Response to Press Questions,

Morel takes it more seriously. “This shows Twitter has no control over data privacy on a global scale. This is a breach.” GDPR Globally without defense.”

Benne, a researcher working on RNA and infection at Humboldt University Berlin, summed it up well on his mastodon feed: “Twitter is basically Hotel California now, You can check out whenever you want, but your tweets are never gone!”