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ELON Musk's Twitter repeatedly draw eyeballs for new features but in the latest update, a bug which is restoring deleted tweets and retweets of several users is grabbing attention, The Verge reported. A potential fix or an official statement from the micro-blogging platform is yet to be out with respect to the glitch.

The media outlet reported an instance where James Vincent, senior reporter and author of the report, stated that on May 8, he deleted nearly all (5,000) of his tweets from his Twitter account. But a few of them are now visible on the Elon Musk-led platform.

"On May 8th I deleted my tweets (I know the date because I tweeted about it). But when I checked my timeline this morning, Twitter had restored some old re-tweets without warning. It's yet another illustration of Twitter's unpredictable infrastructure," the reporter wrote.

These examples don't end here. Richard Morrell, founder and former CTO/Chairman of SmoothWall, flagged the same concern on Mastodon. "Last November, I deleted all my Tweets. Every single one. I then ran Redact and deleted all my likes, my media, and retweets. 38k tweets are gone. Woke up today to find 34k of them restored by Twitter, who presumably brought a server farm back up," he said.

Further, 400 people had shared with Morrell that they had witnessed the same bug, according to ZDNet. Additionally, he estimates that a million plus deleted circle tweets are now back. Users have been flagging the concern since November last year.

"I am pretty sure they've restored cold storage because all the restored tweets have date-time characteristics," Morell said.

"This sounds a lot like they moved a bunch of servers between datacenters and didn't properly adjust the topology before reinserting them into the network, leading to stale data becoming revived," citing a former Twitter site reliability engineer, IANS reported.

Meanwhile, in a similar instance, Circle private tweets of users were leaked to the unintended public on Twitter. Later, the company admitted the glitch and issued a letter to the affected users. The update required no action from the user's end. These instances have amplified recently after Elon Musk took over the platform last year.

With IANS inputs