Deleted tweets randomly reappear

[jmathai]

It appears that Twitter refuses to delete tweets. They keep coming back. cc @jmathai 😓 -- https://twitter.com/nicnocquee/status/855324586455388160

I can confirm with certainty that when a tweet is deleted using the destroy status API it is not destroyed. Most of the time it disappears from your timeline but will reappear on occasion.

I will update this issue with confirmation that a destroy and a get both return a 2xx in that order. Sometimes it takes a while for the tweet to reappear. @nicnocquee feel free to add confirmation if you have it available.

I originally noticed that the tweet count did not accurately reflect the number of tweets in my personal timeline once I ran amnesia. I went from around 17k tweets to less than 50 but my tweet count continued to show 17k and does so to this day. I realize the tweet count is probably stored separately from the tweets and could get out of sync but I also expected it to be eventually consistent. I only mention this because my hunch is that it's counting the actual number of tweets that are stored and stays at 17k because all but 50 are marked as inactive.