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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@lemmy.world 379 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@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mindbleach@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Charitable assumption.

It probably broke.

[–] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 34 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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[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 97 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is anyone still on twitter? Why?

[–] FLX@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago

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

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 52 points 1 year ago (3 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@lemmy.world 15 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.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

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

Really? 😯 I'm surprised they don't have a local solution, that's interesting!

[–] HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also reach and variety of users. Bussiness and self-employed people need it.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you overestimate the user base.

Unless you happen to be in one of the countries or niches where Twitter is really popular, you won't reach a relevant amount of people on there.

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[–] superflippy@lemmy.world 4 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.

[–] Dee@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

But... Why?

[–] tristan@aussie.zone 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@lemmy.world 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.)

[–] Dee@lemmings.world 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@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Perfectly understandable.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

shitposting mostly

[–] Echo71Niner@lemm.ee 90 points 1 year ago

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

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 77 points 1 year ago (2 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.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Hell, I think the sewage treatment plant is starting to blush at this point.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The images are still available. The redirects are broken.

[–] flames5123@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

So how do I get the direct links if all the tweets have the short link?

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 37 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.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 40 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's the point.

[–] brsrklf@compuverse.uk 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] deong@lemmy.world 12 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.

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Have you met an average Internet user? It certainly might.

[–] dezmd@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago
[–] HellAwaits@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

Sure, a "glitch". More like further last ditch efforts to keep Twitter alive by cutting any costs necessary.

[–] skymtf@pricefield.org 29 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Link to the post?

[–] sdoorex@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 19 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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[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 14 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.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

This is comical

[–] lud@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

That's very privacy friendly of them ;)

[–] Treczoks@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Could anyone please explain the meaning of the word "backup" to those people? Maybe with the help of a clue-by-four?

[–] Taringano@lemm.ee 4 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.

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

"Ooops..." -- Someone at X HQ.

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