Messages missing from timeline

I have same problem like @bigboxcar - when I start twitter the only tweets I see are on first page, "older" is grayed out - I have to go to each individual friend's profile to see what's going on which defeats the purposes. Angry !!!

Okay, I may have some new info... Although not tested proper. I have my timeline back now, so here is the theory:

I have lately been trying many new iphone apps for twiiter, and trying hahlo.com and pockettweets.com and logging in to twitter at home, at work, and on my phone. I'm logged in simultaneously in a lot of differnt places. And that made me think about how Twitter is trying to get a handle on spam twittering. I wondered if a trait for a spammer with a 'bot that harvests tweets to retweet with spam is having multiple logins. So, Twitter may try to throttle timelines to one page for those profiles with X-number of simultaneous logins.

Last night, I logged out of every Twitter page on every device. I figured I'd let things simmer-down overnight. This morning, I logged in to twitter.com and I have my timeline back with pagination!

Or, it's all just a coincidence! I'm not sure.

Meh. Coincidence. Timeline does not paginate again by evening today.

I'm having the same problem as well. It doesn't show tweets if they aren't in even multiples of 20. Like, if I have 75 tweets, it will only show the newest 60 and not the last 15. Very annoying.

I'm having similar symptoms.

Just setup my twitter account, testing it out from web and SMS from cellphone. Some SMS got through yesterday, latest ones from last night and today are missing. Most recent tweets were from 24 hours ago.

It doesn't look like twitter is a mature/stable product and cannot be relied on for even modestly important communications.

I've had the same problem for over a *week* now. I can't go past page 1 of my timeline--which makes for an incredibly sucky Twitter experience since I can't be glued to the computer 24 hours a day to follow my timeline. *sarcasm*

No one else on my timeline has the same problem.

I have my Twitter set up where I can post/read from my cell phone, but other than that, I don't log in from anywhere else to access Twitter--which counts out the suggestion @bigboxcar shared.

I've even cleared out my cache--still can't get past page 1 on my timeline.

I'm accessing Twitter on Firefox 2.0.0.16 for Mac, if that makes a difference.

Big thanks for any and all help!

mimi-update on my situation... This morning, I did a bunch of things to my account, and I have my timeline working as it is intended to work. But, I'm guessing this is a coincidence and will have the same symptoms tonight...

Here's what I did:

1- changed my password. I noticed that sometimes when I "sign out" of twitter, and close the browser, then open it up and go directly to twitter.com/home, the page loads as if I were logged in. That's prob'ly not supposed to be like that. So, I changed my password.

2- I unfollowed about 10 profiles thinking that if I eliminate some of the heavy tweeters (like twitterfeed type profiles) I could actually see MORE of my friend's tweets on that first (and only) page of only 20 tweets.

3) I deleted my "device" updates (clicked "Delete and start over") and verified my cellphone from scratch.

There you have it. Hope that proves to help the others with the same problem!

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This is pretty ridiculous. I'm not going to use this space to threaten that I've had enough with twitter, and that twitter sucks, etc. I've seen some people doing that. I like the service. A lot. I'll pony up my time troubleshooting to allow a company I like get through some tough growing pains. Maybe I'm not a big enough twitter addict yet. And I've used it when it worked as expected, so I can see how useful it can be. This is indeed annoying, but I'm not throwing chairs (yet.) I humbly suggest using some of that new investment $$ on proper customer support in the near future. Like having someone get back to a user who places a trouble ticket (like I did). So far, I have not heard a word.
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Okay, so for whatever odd reason--like maybe Twitter fixed it for me because I did nothing on my end after posting my message yesterday--but I was able to read past page 1 of my timeline this morning. I hope it's not a one time thing.

Not so happy. Really not so happy.

Just checked into Twitter as of 7:45 p.m., and can't read past page 1. I also checked in on my cell phone earlier, and couldn't get past page 1 then either.

I also like how no one official from Twitter has stepped into help. That's really nice.

Off to try @bigboxcar suggestion.

Well, my timeline was working again up until last night -- the problem came back. Seems like this problem is getting bigger -- I stmbled upon this thread... Same problem, 60+ people:

Why Older button is not working?
http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to...

(I suggest all in this thread move/follow that thread.)

Someone in that thread proposed that Twitter is actually doing this intentionally to lower their server load. Difficult to prove, but makes sense.

Newbie to twitter...not seeing my posts on the public timeline. I did not check that the "privacy box" on my profile. I've got some folks following me, but I don't know if this is working. HELP ME!