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.
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.
put someone in the server room with an axe and they could do less damage than Elon
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Doubleplusgoof
Edit: leaving my typo because it amuses me
Man, if it wasn’t a typo I’d think you’re a fucking genius, that’s a really witty one
I’m gonna steal that for all the times fascists go “oops, looks like I accidentally further fucked up society, wow I’m so clumsy haha”
Eh. This is on us. URL shorteners and Twitter in particular have always been scarily brittle and opaque,. With nobody actively maintaining the data, why would you think that it would be around forever?
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Exactly. It’s always been likely to be broken by someone at some point. Url shorteners are a thing mostly because of twitters original character limit. Or at least that’s when they gained popularity.
It’s more that finally it starts to show how stupid firing most of the staff was
Most people in tech anticipated it to run fine for a while but then eventually stuff like this will show up more often because you don’t have people that actually understand the code anymore and which kind of side-effects to think about with changes
To zoom out even more: It’s just one more incident showing how fragile investor-sustained digital information systems are.
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. Why would anyone expect Twitter to be any different?
My Geocities page :(
a piece of history i wish i could pull up and remind myself how far i’ve come in web design
Try archive.org
But like I don’t know the url. My geocities are better left in my memories
I had a Tripod page dedicated to a spider in my office I named Mr. Jibbles and took low-res pictures of him with my first digital camera (came free with a copy of Windows XP). I’d kind of like to see Mr. Jibbles again, but I’m sure he’s not as jibbly as I remember.
Good, were one step closer to shutting it down.
Not a glitch. Costs less to dump the data than maintain it, plus a lot of cringey Musk tweets were in there.
The images are still available through direct links. The t.co redirects are broken.
Lol. That’s is? I hate this sensational bs.
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.
If Musk was worried about cringey tweets then he would just delete his account.
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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.
Hell, I think the sewage treatment plant is starting to blush at this point.
The images are still available. The redirects are broken.
So how do I get the direct links if all the tweets have the short link?
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.
This is comical
Erasing media of the Arab Spring at the behest of his Saudi handlers.
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.
They got rid of it.
Charitable assumption.
It probably broke.
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.
might be best not to encourage that behavior
Yet they are still at nazitter. If they were really fed up, they could do something about it.
Wtf is a nazitter
Looks to be a portmanteau of nazi and twitter.
Thank you. I legit did not see that in my brain when I read the word.
“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 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.
Donate to the Internet Archive, y’all.
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.
Have you met an average Internet user? It certainly might.
I thought Archiveteam would have been on it. Seems not. Though according to their wiki even the US library of congress gave up on a complete archive, so probably not a low effort errand.
“Ooops…” – Someone at X HQ.
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
