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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1001 year ago

    Not a glitch. Costs less to dump the data than maintain it, plus a lot of cringey Musk tweets were in there.

        • @[email protected]
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          91 year ago

          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.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        How do I get the direct links from my old tweets? They have the t.co links in the tweet. I didn’t make a list of all the t.co links direct links across the whole site.

    • Fish [Indiana]
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      111 year ago

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