I lost a few a couple of days ago, a minor annoyance but nothing more.

This is the problem with twitter (and those who use it religiously or base their entire business/startup around). Some people seem to think that Twitter is a service that they are entitled to use, or have a right to use, like the internet.

Instead it's a single privately owned company providing a single service freely to a lot of people without any obligation what so ever towards it's users or dependants.

Yes it's totally radical, yes it's a new platform, yes it's useful, yes it's function, yes it's awesome, but at the end, it's just another volatile platform that has a single point of failure, and if it were to fail, it will do so with a horrendously nasty bang...

(and no, nothing is ever too big to fail either)

/rant

A lot of missing tweets are still turning up in the search timeline. You can find tweets like that with tweleted - http://tweleted.com/ - looks like that solves the problem for @tonido

Yes, I lost all my tweets from November to April.

Unlike the author of the article, though, I am not "furious", merely amused. Why would I expect a free service to do anything for me?

I don't understand u. Nothing is free in this world. Twitter's 1 billion $ valuation is because of its users.

Let me know when you can walk into a store and buy stuff with some pundit's "valuation".

Also, its users make it valuable. Losing a few users is not a big deal to them, and your data is more valuable to you than it is to them. Set your expectations accordingly.

The users aren't the customer in this business. They are the product.

yeah, since january. i figured it was related to their issues the other day and that they'd all be back soon but now it looks like they're gone for good.

i demand a refund!

i was wondering about this literally in the sense of tipjoy. i suspect that deleting or removing tweets does not undo tipjoy tips, paid or otherwise. (which is a shame, bc that would make me feel a lot more comfortable as i develop :-)

Does this really matter? The tone in that post is laughable.

I was glad to see this post, since my tweets went missing recently, and Google didn't turn up much complaining. At least I am not the only one.

The explanation I heard was "janky multi-level caching issue".

And when they disappeared yesterday they can back again.

In case you need a minimal scalable twitter to install inside your company servers for internal usage, take a look at Retwis http://retwis.antirez.com

It started just like an example for Redis but actually it's pretty near to be usable with a bit of hacking on it.

Yes. All of the ones from @directededge are gone. I know of a couple other folks that had the same.

I lost all the tweets from 3/18 to ~4/8

Most of them had been replicated to facebook and friendfeed. I had contacted twitter to see if they could re-store the tweets from friendfeed.

Looks like the situation was eventual consistency gone wrong?

Yes, I lost mine just last week. Were visible in the home page view, but not at my own URL.