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.
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.
I haven’t deleted my account - it’s 17 years old! But I also haven’t posted in a couple months other than saying I’ve moved to Mastodon. I said I’d hold on to the bitter end & I will. I’m not leaving, they’ll have to evict me.
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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.
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
This is comical
“Glitch”
The Verge is fed up lol
I figure they would at least mention the poop emoji auto reply.
Not a glitch. Costs less to dump the data than maintain it, plus a lot of cringey Musk tweets were in there.
“Glitch”
“Ooops…” – Someone at X HQ.
put someone in the server room with an axe and they could do less damage than Elon
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’m not sure “Twitter is not a backup service for your personal hard drive” is a point that needed to be made.
Is anyone still on twitter? Why?
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I haven’t deleted my account - it’s 17 years old! But I also haven’t posted in a couple months other than saying I’ve moved to Mastodon. I said I’d hold on to the bitter end & I will. I’m not leaving, they’ll have to evict me.
Because I like it.
Hope that clears things up for you.
Because of this fucking online press embedding tweets into every article, even weather reports