Updated at 5:04 p.m.

 Correction: The following blog post is in error. Kinder's tweets were not removed from his Twitter account, merely overlooked for very lame technological reasons by a careless reporter. Apologies to Kinder and his staff.

 .

 .

.

JEFFERSON CITY | Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder has caught some flak over his Twitter posts concerning the not-a-hostage-situation at an office building here yesterday.

Seems a few in the blogosphere feel he flew a little off the handle and may have spread some inaccurate information.

Well, you'd never know it now. If you check out Kinder's Twitter account today, you'll find an 11-hour gap between tweets yesterday, which includes when all the excitement was taking place at the Governor Office Building. 

At least one of the expurgated tweets was captured here by Fired Up! Missouri, the Democrat blog. Another was re-tweeted at the time by Springfield News-Leader reporter (and Twitterholic ) Chad Livengood: "RT @PeterKinder Evacuating bldg. 1 staffer called from 9th floor of Gov Office bldg to report "it doesn't seem like a crisis" Let's hope so."

Can we get a ruling on Twitter ethics? Errors should be corrected, but de-tweeting them just seems suspicious.