I agree on the fast switching thing bugging out the client; when you do log into that character you can hit your friends list and it would come up empty, not no matches, you will either have tells saying the person is offline or you will not get what you just said in your chat box, even though the person received the tell successfully.
BUT, this does happen after you crash after death usually during a group/raid wipe or just crashing while zoning. When you get back on to the same character you can have the same issues. I am 73.5% sure there could be a server side issue with keeping a character (or IP of said player) hung on to longer than that is reported by the client, which explains why zoning or logging back out refreshes that session with the server. It may be this is a preventive measure to discourage fast switching, but it does spill over into real world situations.
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