A Twitter bug is reviving deleted tweets and retweets

Oh, Twitter. What a trash fireplace. There’s now a Twitter bug that’s restoring deleted tweets and retweets.

On May eighth, The Verge‘s senior reporter James Vincent deleted round 5,000 of his tweets. Today, he found that the social media platform reinstated a bunch of these tweets and retweets. In reality, Twitter restored an previous video Vincent had posted in regards to the George Floyd protests, which is three-years-old at this level. Several different customers additionally reported seeing the problem. What the precise heck, Twitter?

Twitter has but to supply up an evidence or (even higher) an answer. It’s additionally not instantly clear what number of customers are impacted by this bug. A former Twitter worker believes the bug occurred when Twitter was transferring its servers round, thus by accident restoring the previous information. It’s a ache within the neck, that’s for positive.

This bug shines a harsh, blinding gentle on private information and the management we might or might not have over it. Personally, I don’t care a lot for social media, so my posts are fairly vanilla so far as spiciness goes. That stated, I like having management over what I submit. This bug is truthfully making me rethink having a semi-active Twitter account. If Twitter can whip up some type of miracle elixir to repair this bug (sooner fairly than later can be most popular), then possibly I’ll stick round.

Author: Ashley Biancuzzo, Associate Editor