Recently active problems in Twitter tagged with dm

I'm seeing reports from people who say they're unable to send DMs to someone who is already following them.

For example, @fiercehugs has a tweet that mentions this:

fiercehugs: @twitter Having DM problems. @yoga_mama & I follow each other & can only DM using msg link from other's web page; not from our own DM page
12:32 PM October 09, 2008 from web

@royblumenthal's recent tweets also mention the same problem:

royblumenthal: @mediacoach Just tried to send you a direct message, and it says you're not following me. Which is odd. Will you refollow? Thanks, mon.
42 minutes ago from web in reply to MediaCoach

royblumenthal: @mediacoach It's some kind of Twitter bollocksing. You'll need to unfollow, then follow again. It simply refuses to let me send you a Direct
25 minutes ago from web in reply to MediaCoach

royblumenthal: Is anyone experiencing Twitter hassles with trying to send direct messages? I get 'you must be followed by this person' errors. You?
20 minutes ago from web

royblumenthal: I can send directs from a person's profile page. But nowhere else.
19 minutes ago from web

A look through Twitter Search easily turns up a few more people :

mzamp01: @LiveCrunch For some reason I can't DM some of my Followers...
about 7 hours ago from web

PinkOliveFamily : Dear @twitter - I'm still having prob with DMs (although I can clearly see that both following each other) - second commt today
about 13 hours ago

Why is the "older" option disabled for DM's? I have pages and pages of DM's that I cannot see!! :(

i don't have the ability to reply to a direct message sent to me because they aren't following me...

i realise that usually you can't dm people who aren't following you, but doesn't it follow logically that if someone direct messages you, then they might want to be able to get a response without actually following your tweets? Another way to remedy this is to have a setting to "allows direct messages from people you do not follow".

just a(nother) suggestion. keep up the groovy work.

I am running a bot that provides tracking functionality by using the Search API and sending direct messages. Now that there are about 100 people using it and getting messages, Ive noticed over the last few days that several messages haven't been getting sent. I understand the need for limiting casual users DMs to curb spammers, but my bot is legitamate.

I reported this issue on the development list (it exposes the contents of a random DM when using the json interface) and have filed a request through help.twitter.com (issue 320434) to have the limit removed or drastically increased. The rate_limit_status API call doesn't indicate DM limit status.

Any help is appreciated!

Why are all my direct messsages met with errors?

Hi guys...
The DM and the "Find Followers" links are not working...Getting Internal 500 errors...
Just letting you know.
L.

When someone sends me a Direct Message they show up in my timeline as "[sender] the message" as if I have posted this. What happened? How do I fix this? My twittername is frankmeeuwsen