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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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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 164 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Time to cut some storage costs!

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 91 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

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

[–] HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago

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