FYI, we found the bug! Twitter API was fine, but yajl-ruby gem has an error that causes it to skip tweets of some lengths, which accounts for the weird way it let some through and not others.
We're heading off to correct the Ruby gem now. -Ginny -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk