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.
Twitter, X, or whatever it’s currently called, did not respond to requests for comment.
The Verge is fed up lol
I figure they would at least mention the poop emoji auto reply.
might be best not to encourage that behavior
“Glitch”
Not a glitch. Costs less to dump the data than maintain it, plus a lot of cringey Musk tweets were in there.
If Musk was worried about cringey tweets then he would just delete his account.
put someone in the server room with an axe and they could do less damage than Elon
“Glitch”
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.
I don’t think that’s the point.
I’m not sure “Twitter is not a backup service for your personal hard drive” is a point that needed to be made.
Erasing media of the Arab Spring at the behest of his Saudi handlers.
Woopsie
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
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.
This is comical
“Ooops…” – Someone at X HQ.
