Ok, I think there may be something going on. This time I took screen shots to make sure I wasn't going insane which I wish I would have done with the phantom like linking to that article (which I'm now really second guessing myself on now).
So, I few days after my post, I noticed that all of the likes from 2017 were gone. The only likes showing up were from 2016. This was all through the Twitter app, which may make a difference, I'm not sure.
This was the first shot taken on Oct. 14. The top like is most recent listed - the 2017 likes are nowhere to be found.
This is from Oct 16. Likes are now up to 9/30/2016. At this point I thought it may be an issue with the app and it was having a bug issue. However, it didn't appear to effect other people I follow.
Then, on Oct. 19 I noticed this:
All liked tweets are gone. I did notice that their number of tweets has not changed, it still says 64:
No clue if this means anything at all, just wanted to point it out and see if others noticed the same thing...