Does it sound like “what we do in this life echoes in eternity”? It is one of the most famous phrases gladiatorbut get all the poetry out of it, because if the internet had existed in the era Ridley Scott’s film is based on, the story would have been very different and not for the better, although there would have been a bit of everything .

It would be possible, for example, that Máximo Décimo Meridio himself had a Twitter account, and that the phrase in question would not have been uttered with stoic pride and certain hope, but rather with the regret of someone who had posted something highly inappropriate on the web. the little bird’s social network and it is being cancelled.

Is this your case? In other words, are you one of those Twitter users who over time have deleted some message or another out of regret or simply by mistake? Be careful with the data, because what no one expected is happening: a lot Users report coming across messages they thought had been deletedbut they returned from oblivion.

Many users, literally: at least 400 reported the problem, so who knows how many found themselves in the same situation without realizing it. This means that this is not an isolated error, but a failure that can be very serious depending on the consequences it reveals.

According to a security expert who suffered and investigated the case, and who now condemns it, only among his circles of Twitter contacts estimates that up to a million tweets may have been recovered, a million messages published on the platform that were deleted by their authors. He himself ensures that all his tweets have appeared after being deleted.

This is the crux of the matter and the reason for such huge numbers: this developer published more than 34,000 tweets until, like many other users, he was scared of the social network as soon as Elon Musk took over the reins of the business. So although many people are reporting that the tweets that are resurfacing are from last November 2022, it is clear that the problem is deeper than that.

Not only that: it could become a problem of the first magnitude for Twitter, because if the deletion does not work as it should, and there is some permanent backup of the data, they have fooled their users forever, except that violated international regulations of all kinds, including the European GDPR.