[liberationtech] Twitter "reappearing" message documentation..

[Ryan Gallagher]

On 16 April 2013 20:50, Nadim Kobeissi <nadim at nadim.cc> wrote:

> Hmm. I for one experience reappearing DMs/a variety of similar DM glitches
> (unread DMs marked as read, read DMs marked as unread) on a weekly basis.
> Perhaps it's more common than originally thought?
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It may be to do with the fact that you can only store 100 DMs at any one
time. So when you reach capacity the oldest messages drop out of your inbox
automatically and are replaced by new ones. Then when you delete some
messages the old ones that previously dropped out suddenly reappear, and
can sometimes display as "new" messages. It happened to me a while ago and
I looked into it. I also sometimes get these issues while accessing Twitter
on different computers/browsers (messages I've recently read appearing as
new). The theory that it has anything to do with NSLs strikes me as
far-fetched to say the least, in the same vein as the bizarre theory
circulated recently about how Google asking you to approve terms of usage
on your account is actually a secret discreet way of letting you know
you're subject to an NSL.
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