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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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[–] KirbySSM 457 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Twitter, X, or whatever it’s currently called, did not respond to requests for comment.

The Verge is fed up lol

[–] derf82 104 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I figure they would at least mention the poop emoji auto reply.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mindbleach 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Charitable assumption.

It probably broke.

[–] DocMcStuffin 43 points 1 year ago

No, they changed it to, "We'll get back to you soon." sometime after the new CEO came on board. Of course they never "get back to you soon". So, it might as well be a poop emoji.

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[–] [email protected] 192 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 165 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Time to cut some storage costs!

[–] CIA_chatbot 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Is anyone still on twitter? Why?

[–] FLX 89 points 1 year ago

Because of this fucking online press embedding tweets into every article, even weather reports

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Momentum. It's still the most popular platform for many niches and it will stay popular as long as it's popular....

[–] redwall_hp 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And English speakers are only a fraction of the user base. Current events in the US social media bubble barely penetrate the general public in the US, let alone across international and language barriers.

It's probably the largest social media platform in Japan, for example.

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[–] iforgotmyinstance 103 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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] protput 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] olympicyes 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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago

Haha, "glitch" about $10 million dollars in storage fee was cleared.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anyone still using Twitter is a top tier masochist. It was always a pretty shit platform, but it's being made fun of by the toilet and the dumpster now for how shitty it is.

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[–] bappity 55 points 1 year ago

put someone in the server room with an axe and they could do less damage than Elon

[–] sylver_dragon 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

3-2-1 Rule:
3 copies of the data.
2 Different media types.
1 of those off-site.

If you're relying on Twitter as the only place you have an image you care about, you're making a bad choice.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's the point.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think anybody seriously used twitter as storage.

Rather the point is that, similarly to every time a blogging platform or another online service with user content shuts down, a bit of internet history disappears with it. Links are broken, traces of opinions or bits of knowledge from another time are not available anymore...

It's not the end of the world, and at that point I wouldn't really care if twitter disappeared completely overnight, but still, some stuff will be lost.

[–] Intralexical 7 points 1 year ago

Donate to the Internet Archive, y'all.

[–] deong 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not sure “Twitter is not a backup service for your personal hard drive” is a point that needed to be made.

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[–] dezmd 39 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I am kinda without words, need to check if one of my favorite post are still up. The poet was made by a trans women before she knew she was trans. She was sitting in a boat and said I feel like a girl in a 90s movie. She quote posted it recently and said we made it girlie.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] solidsnake2085 29 points 1 year ago

Good, were one step closer to shutting it down.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


It’s unclear when the problem started, but it was highlighted on Saturday afternoon in a post by Tom Coates, and a Brazilian vtuber, @DaniloTakagi, had pointed it out a couple of days earlier.

As it is, it appears to affect tweets published prior to December 2014, judging by posts visible on my own account.

On Saturday afternoon, as Coates pointed out, the glitch claimed the picture from one of the most famous tweets ever (back when they were still called tweets), this selfie posted by 2014 Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres flanked by celebs like Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and others, taken during the show’s broadcast.

I haven’t seen any public comments from owner Elon Musk or X CEO Linda Yaccarino about the problem, but at some point on Saturday night / early Sunday morning, the picture in that post was restored.

Despite speculation that it could be an intentional cost-cutting move by Musk, the fact that the actual media posted hasn’t been deleted suggests an error or bug of some kind, one of many that have arisen since last year’s takeover and mass layoffs.

There’s also at least one other old tweeted image that still worked — the one posted to President Barack Obama’s account after winning his 2012 campaign for reelection, showing a hug between him and the First Lady.


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[–] VicentAdultman 17 points 1 year ago

At this point, I guess he is the most Mastodon support of all time, damn. He is really trying hard to make people quit his platform

[–] HeyJoe 15 points 1 year ago

Trying to decide if I care enough to check my account that I started in like 2009 and haven't looked at since probably 2012. After everything that has happened I almost feel like it would be impressive if it still existed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

That's very privacy friendly of them ;)

[–] sturmblast 11 points 1 year ago

This is comical

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's just that viewing tweets/xeets? Of the past are a premium feature. You can only see posts from the current second. It's to keep you really updated.

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