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DMs are not showing up in my inbox tab
I just had a great conversation with someone and the entire thing had to be translated from emails. None of the inbound DMs are showing in my inbox. Only the two most recent DMs from this discussion are showing up in my sent tab. Though older messages are still there.
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Inappropriate?Twitter's Direct messages seem to be stored like normal tweets in Twitter's database - which has somewhat surprising consequences.
If you delete one of your normal tweets, then it disappears from Twitter, and no-one else on Twitter will be able to read it.
So far, so good.
If someone sends you a DM, it appears in your Inbox and in their Sent box.
If they later delete what they sent, it disappears from their Sent box - and also disappears from your Inbox.
Even more unexpected (though quite logical): if you delete a DM from your Inbox, it also disappears from the sender's Sent box too!
So it's possible your conversational partner deleted (most of) the discussion from their Inbox and Sent box - which would have deleted the DMs at your end too, though your partner probably wouldn't have realised that.
To me, this seems more like a bug than a feature: nowhere else in Twitter can someone else delete something I've written!
And it means you should take care not to delete a DM you've sent until you're sure the recipient has read it!
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Inappropriate?That seems to be totally counterintuitive and completely illogical. That would be the same as me deleting a sent email and having it disappear from the recipients inbox. That makes no sense.
Will this "feature" be fixed anytime soon?
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