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X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014 (www.theverge.com)

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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.

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[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year 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.

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 47 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's the point.

[-] brsrklf@compuverse.uk 27 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Intralexical@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Donate to the Internet Archive, y'all.

[-] deong@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Have you met an average Internet user? It certainly might.

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