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X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014 (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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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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[–] superflippy 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven’t deleted my account - it’s 17 years old! But I also haven’t posted in a couple months other than saying I’ve moved to Mastodon. I said I’d hold on to the bitter end & I will. I’m not leaving, they’ll have to evict me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not leaving, they’ll have to evict me.

But... Why?

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

I can't speak for the previous comment but in my case they wanted me to remove 2fa (or pay to keep it) just to log in

I didn't remove it, and I've never been back

[–] superflippy 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s the principle of the thing. I’m not going to delete myself, pretend I wasn’t there for all those years. The record stands. (Except for any media posted prior to 2014, which now exists only on my personal cloud storage, I guess.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More power to you I guess, I think our brains just work differently on this subject. I used TweetDelete and nuked my entire account a few months back. I was going to let it just sit there with no activity but then he did another stupid thing (I forget which thing) so I wanted my content completely off the platform.

[–] superflippy 1 points 1 year ago

Perfectly understandable.