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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Time to cut some storage costs!

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This is exactly it. It also wouldn’t surprise me if certain accounts had images from then that might get request by law enforcement that are now “oops all gone!”

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Someone noticed it knocked out most of the Arab Spring. Remember who also owns part of Twitter?

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They can’t be that much of a burden surely?

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That, or he wasn’t even paying the bill and everything finally got wiped.

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More like can’t cancel me for something I said in 2012 if there’s no record of it.

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