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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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[-] 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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