| I have no doubt twitter censors content. When George Bush was up here in Canada on a speaking tour last year I was in the first car stopped at the light while the police blocked traffic for the motorcade. I was sitting there, so I took pictures and tweeted about the experience while waiting and while the ex-president's cars went by. By the time I got home 20 minutes later, those tweets were no longer in my account. I know they hit the twitterverse because a couple of my friends were able to re-tweet what I'd posted because they were using desktop clients that stored the messages. My reaction was surprising at the time: I wasn't mad. I was scared. I can understand why officials would be worried about tweets giving away details that could be used maliciously, but this was happening in real time. The president was THERE, at that moment. There was less intelligence value to my tweets than there was in the advertising for his attendance at the speaking engagement. But still, it was scary and I understand much more clearly what people living in oppressive regimes must feel daily. I have those tweets, reposted by others on my behalf, so the Internet healed itself. Can't stop the signal. . . . |
What seems likely is database replication issues or a buggy caching algorithm. You are not important enough to censor.