Back in early August, I was eagerly anticipating my 5,000th tweet. This may sound a bit nerdy to folks who don’t understand Twitter, but for me, my 5,000th tweet was going to be special. A day to remember. It would make Twitter history for me.

And then, the unimaginable happened.

My tweet count fell from 4,900-something to 120.

WHAT THE HECK?!

I was annoyed. No, I mean, REALLY annoyed. How could Twitter make me look like such an amateur?! I quickly did some investigating and discovered that other users were experiencing the same problem. Twitter Help offered a fix though, so I relaxed and reassured myself that it would be okay. “Just comment on the this thread with your user name and amount of tweets missing, and someone will take care of the issue.” Easy, right? Day in and day out, I checked my count. No change. Two weeks later, still nothing. I went back to the same help thread, and commented again, thinking maybe they’d missed me somehow. Still nothing. What does a gal need to do to get some help in Twitterland?

Tonight, October 8th (yes, two months and four comments later), I went back to the thread. The comment section was now closed, but I noticed (after a brief moment of panic) that Twitter Help offered a new solution. All I needed to do was send an @ reply to @Charles that said “ungulation”. (FYI, I have no idea what the word means.) So I did. What did I have to lose? Within minutes @Charles had fixed my tweet count. Hurray! Though it took an entire two months for me to find a solution that worked, I was delighted that it was fixed so promptly by this Twitter techie. So if you need your tweet count fixed, take it up with Charles! :D