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X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014 (www.theverge.com)
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X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014::Ellen’s famous ‘most retweeted’ selfie from the 2014 Oscars has had its image restored, but most old tweets have broken short links instead of the media or links that should be there.

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[–] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not a glitch. Costs less to dump the data than maintain it, plus a lot of cringey Musk tweets were in there.

[–] cesium@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The images are still available through direct links. The t.co redirects are broken.

[–] protput@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol. That's is? I hate this sensational bs.

[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tweets were 140 characters including urls to photos. It means the photo or url linked no longer works because users would shorten links instead of the full image url.

[–] protput@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I know. But seems like a very easy fix.

[–] flames5123@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

How do I get the direct links from my old tweets? They have the t.co links in the tweet. I didn’t make a list of all the t.co links direct links across the whole site.

[–] Fish@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

If Musk was worried about cringey tweets then he would just delete his account.