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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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[–] FFarOut 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Every website that came before the current crop of mega-scale privacy-invading behemoths also failed, and took down all their user data and history with them.

Livejournal would like a word with you.

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[–] Intralexical 1 points 1 year ago

They're from before my time. But they also hosted some art that I found after the fact that I really love, so I'm glad (and a bit surprised) to see the data is still up.

That said, they're owned and operated by Russians now. So....