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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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[–] [email protected] 192 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Glitch"

[–] [email protected] 165 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Time to cut some storage costs!

[–] CIA_chatbot 91 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This is exactly it. It also wouldn’t surprise me if certain accounts had images from then that might get request by law enforcement that are now “oops all gone!”

[–] TenderfootGungi 30 points 1 year ago

Someone noticed it knocked out most of the Arab Spring. Remember who also owns part of Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They can't be that much of a burden surely?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That, or he wasn't even paying the bill and everything finally got wiped.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

More like can't cancel me for something I said in 2012 if there's no record of it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Now it’s a “Xlitch”