Update: Twitter responded to our inquiries and told us that it's a known issue that they're working on. Your tweets are safe.
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Where did all the tweets go? Tens of thousands (if not more) of older tweets have simply disappeared on highly active and highly followed Twitter accounts, including the @Mashable account.
I'll use @Mashable as an example: The Pete Cashmore account has tweeted more than 20,000 times in its history. Yet the tweet count has dropped from that number to 518 at the time of this story. When we tried to look back, we couldn't find or access tweets older than December 23.
We've noticed the problem on a lot of other accounts as well. Popular Twitter users @Adventuregirl is also missing many of her tweets, and nothing can be found from before December 12. @CNNbrk, @aplusk, and many others have also been affected.