That sounds about right, especially seeing other comments mentioning the constantly decrementing counter. Glad to know it's not just my app, or related only to what was happening earlier today. Hopefully that fix will be in place soon.
Stephen On Aug 19, 6:21 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > For the deleted tweet issue, I believe you might be running into this > particular > bug:http://support.twitter.com/articles/207367-unable-to-delete-tweets-kn... > > It's a known issue, and I have word the fix is nearing completion. Sounds > like a simple issue, but ended up being more complicated somehow. > > Taylor > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Stephen <jackroof...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been playing around with integrating an app into my website's > > news postings and admin panel, via @abraham's PHP libraries. I've just > > set up a basic admin module that allows us to view our recent tweets > > and send a new one. I sent out a few test tweets, and then went about > > deleting them through the API. Most of the time, this worked. > > Sometimes, however, things went wrong. The API would refresh and no > > longer see the tweet, but it would still be visible on Twitter.com, > > for example. Strangely, the number of tweets returned with my account > > has been decremented by these failed calls. As of right now, there are > > 6 more tweets by the account than the page actually says there are. > > > For those familiar with the PHP library, the following is the code I'm > > using to delete a status: > > $TWITTER->GetTwitterObject()->post('statuses/destroy/' . > > $_POST['tid'], array('id' => $_POST['tid'])); > > Where $TWITTER is my own wrapper for handling Twitter interaction, and > > the GetTwitterObject() method returns the TwitterOAuth object from > > @abraham's library. > > > Also worth noting that this problem has continued AFTER the Twitter > > Status update indicating that previous follow count and other > > statistics were not accurately responding. > > > Has anyone else noticed extra decrements in the tweet count, or > > failure to properly destroy a status via the API?
