Many people have reported that negative tweets they have posted to Twitter about United Airlines have either been deleted or just disappeared. Weird, huh?
So far, thankfully, the hilarious memes and parody accounts seem to have survived unscathed, but numerous other users have claimed their negative tweets about United Airlines have just up and vanished.
Very strange- twitter seem to be deleting negative tweets about @united Airlines, including mine…
— Jay Beecher (@Jay_Beecher) April 10, 2017
Twitter responds to my tweet asking why they are deleting negative tweets about United Airlines…by DELETING my question lol @socialdiva pic.twitter.com/3kZNKut13C
— Jay Beecher (@Jay_Beecher) April 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/eamonn1202/status/851630472429838336
So, twitter just decided to delete my United tweet
— Call me Energy✨ (@Phenominahde) April 11, 2017
Yep. It's gone.
— Fred MacAulay (@fredmacaulay) April 10, 2017
My tweet about #united was deleted. But that will not stop what happened being talked about.
— The IBC Network Foundation (@TalkIBC) April 11, 2017
I had that problem as well. They must be investors.
— Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmontgomery) April 10, 2017
Funny… I tweeted @united earlier today to ask about my flight next week and the tweet is deleted. Begging to regret booking with them.
— Proud Blue Bitch 🌊 (@iknowimbitter) April 11, 2017
Same, my tweet also got deleted. Good job Twitter!
— iFoxdie (@RealFoxdie) April 11, 2017
Anybody else tweet about @united and had your tweet deleted?
— Mick Ferry (@MickFerry) April 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/olyviasalyer/status/851767717917061120
As if that wasn’t odd enough, it was noticed that #United was trending on Twitter, as one would expect, once it became all anyone was talking about, but now it too has magically disappeared.
What happened to #united under Trending? 🤔
— I'm @moxyvenom (@doxypoison) April 11, 2017
One of the users featured above, Jay Beecher, spoke to The Next Web about what he experienced…
I think that they might have been deleting any [tweets] that had the United Airlines tag on them.
I found [the deleting] was pretty much automatic. I would put the tweet up, click refresh or go to another page and then return to mine, and the tweet would have disappeared.
The Next Web also shared a theory being passed around as to why the tweets were disappearing, but it appears to have been debunked…
Some readers have suggested that the allegedly deleted tweets might have initially appeared as replies to now-deleted tweets, which would explain why they are missing. However, numerous users contacted by TNW rejected this premise, claiming the missing posts were standard tweets.
TNW has reached out to Twitter for comment on this issue, but so far has received no response.