Twitter was awash with complaints late yesterday as celeb stalkers noticed they could no longer access a number of famous tweets - including that Oscar selfie. The micro-blogging site said it was working on a fix about 12 hours ago and it has yet to provide an update, but the missing tweets appear to be slowly returning to …

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Wednesday 26th March 2014 12:30 GMT Destroy All Monsters

AND NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST!

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1. Wednesday 26th March 2014 13:16 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  AND NO ONE CARED!
  
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  1. Thursday 27th March 2014 03:14 GMT 404
    
    I care... in a way. Still tweaked about the 33% price increase of the Note 3 within 24 hours of that damn pic. DeGeneres uses an iPhone IRL anyway...
    
    <grumble>
    
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Wednesday 26th March 2014 12:38 GMT Sir Barry

Sheesh

"panicky fans moaning to Twitter saying shouty things like "Get it fixed NOW!!!" and "PLEASE IM LITERALLY GONNA CRY PLEASE SORT IT OUT.""

Some people need to get a life

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1. Wednesday 26th March 2014 15:51 GMT wowfood
  
  Re: Sheesh
  
  I'm sorry you went over the 140char limit. Please try again.
  
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Wednesday 26th March 2014 12:39 GMT John G Imrie

OMG

I'm literally going to write OMG in a comment about twitter on another web site's comment system.

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1. Wednesday 26th March 2014 16:01 GMT Gav
  
  Retweet: OMG
  
  And I'm literally going to re-comment it. John G Imrie
  
  I'm literally going to write OMG in a comment about twitter on another web site's comment system.
  
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2. Thursday 27th March 2014 16:21 GMT BenBell
  
  Re: OMG
  
  RT @John G Imrie "OMG"
  
  ...or something like that. I don't know, I don't use twitter. I'm too old for this (stuff)
  
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Wednesday 26th March 2014 12:57 GMT Anonymous Coward

No class action suit yet?

Well, it is quite early in the morning still in The Land of The Fee.

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Wednesday 26th March 2014 13:20 GMT Anonymous Coward

Wonderful!

Lady Gaga and One Direction musings on life go missing and people still say there's no god!?

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Wednesday 26th March 2014 13:23 GMT Simon Harris

Did I miss something?

I have no idea what that Oscar selfie was!

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1. Wednesday 26th March 2014 13:34 GMT Ben Bonsall
  
  Re: Did I miss something?
  
  Who is Oscar Selfie, indeed, who are Oscar Selfies, if there are enough to refer to one of them as THAT Oscar Selfie?
  
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  1. Wednesday 26th March 2014 13:39 GMT Swarthy
    
    Re: Did I miss something?
    
    I believe that Oscar Selfie is a dis-owned cousin of Keyser Söze.
    
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2. Wednesday 26th March 2014 18:38 GMT Fink-Nottle
  
  Re: Did I miss something?
  
  > I have no idea what that Oscar selfie was!
  
  Wasn't it that shot Oscar Pistorius took?
  
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Wednesday 26th March 2014 13:59 GMT Jim 59

Oscar Selfie

Ah the Oscar Selfie. Great picture to be sure. But isn't a "selfie" taken by a camera being held by someone on the picture ?

I think the word they were looking for was "photograph"

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1. Wednesday 26th March 2014 14:09 GMT Spleen
  
  Re: Oscar Selfie
  
  I'm ashamed that I know this, but it was. It's being taken by the guy kneeling at the front with the silly beard.
  
  *edit*
  
  You could however argue that it isn't a selfie on the grounds that a selfie is taken spontaneously, for reasons of vanity or to show something off (e.g. new clothes or meeting a celebrity). The Oscar shot wouldn't count as a selfie because it was staged for advertising purposes.
  
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Wednesday 26th March 2014 14:39 GMT earl grey

I'm eternally thankful

I have no frikkin' idea whose oscar selfie you're talking about. Guess that what i get for living in a cave and not using tweeter-dee. Now get off my lawn.

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Wednesday 26th March 2014 15:23 GMT NoneSuch

The sudden disappearance of the tweets led to some panicky fans moaning to Twitter saying shouty things like "Get it fixed NOW!!!" and "PLEASE IM LITERALLY GONNA CRY PLEASE SORT IT OUT."

Good Lord. People need to turn off their phones and get a life.

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Wednesday 26th March 2014 18:25 GMT Alistair

Which hospital did he go to?

Just want to send flowers to Oscar. Hope the defibrillator didn't burn off too much chest hair.

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Wednesday 26th March 2014 21:26 GMT Ulaavi

Plan set in motion...

..although some humans have noticed that tweets have gone missing.

Note: should speed up erasure speed.

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Wednesday 26th March 2014 22:53 GMT Mitoo Bobsworth

This is newsworthy?

Really?

(sigh) Oh dear.

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1. Thursday 27th March 2014 08:49 GMT Tomato42
  
  Re: This is newsworthy?
  
  it is a partial outage in a service used by some for informing about infrastructure outages.
  
  So yes, it is newsworthy on an IT site.
  
  References to Oscar Selfie are just the "biting the hand" part of El Reg style.
  
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