Engaget Summary (2023-05-22 11AM)

Source: Twitter bug seems to be randomly restoring deleted tweets

Summary
A bug in the Twitter app is causing deleted tweets and retweets to reappear, which could potentially impact users’ privacy. A security expert reported that over 34,000 deleted messages have been restored. The issue seems to be affecting those who deleted their tweets through third-party services such as Redact or TweetDelete.

Facts

🐛 Twitter is restoring deleted tweets and retweets at an alarming rate.

🤔 The bug is widespread and impacting users who batch-deleted tweets via third-party services, but not exclusively.

🧑‍💻 A former Twitter engineer speculated that the problem could be related to servers being moved between data centers and not correctly adjusted before being reinserted into the network.

🤖 Elon Musk disbanded the press team, replacing it with a bot that returns poop emojis, and there’s no official statement from Twitter about the issue yet.

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