Ellen DeGeneres’ 2014 Oscars tweet got its picture back, but most others are still broken.

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.

  • KirbySSM@lemmy.worldEnglish
    244·
    2 years ago

    Twitter, X, or whatever it’s currently called, did not respond to requests for comment.

    The Verge is fed up lol

        • olympicyes@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 years 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.

      • flames5123@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years 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.

      • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        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 totally accidental”

    • Intralexical@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      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?

      • fuzzzerd@programming.devEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • Bappity@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    2 years ago

    put someone in the server room with an axe and they could do less damage than Elon

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3210·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • deong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      2 years ago

      I’m not sure “Twitter is not a backup service for your personal hard drive” is a point that needed to be made.

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years 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.