[janitha]

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

[zaius]

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

[jrockway]

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?

[codemechanic → jrockway]

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

[jrockway → codemechanic]

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.

[sjs382 → codemechanic]

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

[mr_justin]

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

[jrockway → mr_justin]

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.

[there]

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!

[diN0bot → there]

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 :-)

[antirez]

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.

[kellan]

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

And when they disappeared yesterday they can back again.

[wheels]

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

[strlen]

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?

[madair]

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