I have no reason to believe this is true. It happens to me on a regular basis as well.
There was a similar question recently as to whether requiring someone to re-accept the Google TOS upon logging in was an indication of the same. Again, these both sound like conspiracy theories to me. On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Anthony Papillion <anth...@cajuntechie.org>wrote: > I've heard this before. The story goes that, since Twitter can't tell > you that you're under investigation (NSL's come with a gag order), they > bring back some older DM's as a 'wink-knod' to let you know that they > received an NSL. I've heard a similar rumor about Google and their Gmail > service making you revalidate your account if they receive an NSL. > > It sounds plausible but not likely. I'd think that, since this rumor is > so widespread, the government would have had a talk with any company who > does this and quashed it pretty quick. It just doesn't make sense. I'd > think a more likely reason for the reappearing DM's is that Twitter had > to restore something using a backup. > > Anthony > > On 04/16/2013 02:48 PM, Ali-Reza Anghaie wrote: > > It became "common" knowledge (read: oft-cited conspiracy) that > > reappearing Direct Messages in Twitter were the result of an > > investigation. > > > > A few minutes ago it came up again and the EFF was mentioned but > > particular citation could not be found. I figured I would ask here. > > > > Do we have any real documentation or transcripts that indicate that > > reappearing messages are actually indicative of anything? And to that > > matter - why would compliance be broken in that way if it was anyway > > (tipping someone off effectively)? > > > > I'm just curious if there was any real body of work on this or it's > > just become repeated speculation over time. Thank you, Cheers, -Ali > > -- > > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > > > > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- US: +1-857-891-4244 | NL: +31-657086088 site: jilliancyork.com <http://jilliancyork.com/>* | * twitter: @jilliancyork* * "We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality" - *Vaclav Havel*
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