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.
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.
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.
I am kinda without words, need to check if one of my favorite post are still up. The poet was made by a trans women before she knew she was trans. She was sitting in a boat and said I feel like a girl in a 90s movie. She quote posted it recently and said we made it girlie.
If it went viral, it might be in the Wayback Machine. ᴰᵒⁿᵃᵗᵉ ᵗᵒ ᵗʰᵉ ᵂᵃʸᵇᵃᶜᵏ ᴹᵃᶜʰᶦⁿᵉ ᵃⁿᵈ ᴵⁿᵗᵉʳⁿᵉᵗ ᴬʳᶜʰᶦᵛᵉᵎ
Is anyone still on twitter? Why?
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.
It’s the principle of the thing. I’m not going to delete myself, pretend I wasn’t there for all those years. The record stands. (Except for any media posted prior to 2014, which now exists only on my personal cloud storage, I guess.)
Momentum. It’s still the most popular platform for many niches and it will stay popular as long as it’s popular…
And English speakers are only a fraction of the user base. Current events in the US social media bubble barely penetrate the general public in the US, let alone across international and language barriers.
It’s probably the largest social media platform in Japan, for example.
Also reach and variety of users. Bussiness and self-employed people need it.
I think you overestimate the user base.
Unless you happen to be in one of the countries or niches where Twitter is really popular, you won’t reach a relevant amount of people on there.
Yes, but you’re not a celebrity, government official, weather station or corporate marketing office. The question is why they remain on ex-Twitter when they really need a more stable platform.
It’s fine that common folk like Gab or Parler or Truth Social, but they’re not great for official business, And now, neither is the ex.
Weird response.
The question wasn’t “why are you the celebrity on twitter?”
Not a glitch. Costs less to dump the data than maintain it, plus a lot of cringey Musk tweets were in there.
The images are still available through direct links. The t.co redirects are broken.
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.
“Glitch”
