X, which was formerly known as Twitter until its recent rebranding, is having a problem displaying old posts that came with images attached or any hyperlinks converted through Twitter’s built-in URL shortener. It’s unclear when the problem started, but it was highlighted on Saturday afternoon in a post by Tom Coates, and a Brazilian vtuber, @DaniloTakagi, had pointed it out a couple of days earlier.
Someone noted that basically all of the media from the Arab Spring—which was a massive Twitter moment—has been wiped out.
A great situation to point to when someone asks why decentralized social media is important
And also why we need non profit foundations backing the big social media sites so their priorities aren’t increasing profit.
Ah, yes. A “glitch”. And, how fascinating that it affects links from the early days when Twitter was really gaining traction and being used to rouse populaces.
The thing is, Musk, whether he was paid to do this or not, is acting purposefully. This is all a grand scheme to fully dismantle what was once our global town square. Twitter was once a place where “the people” could hold politicians, corporations, and the generally wealthy accountable for their actions publicly. In the past year, the platform has become unsteady, blue checks are untrustworthy, and even the name has changed to something that causes one to pause.
I dislike the man as much as the next normal person, but all of this nonsense has been planned from the start. He’s not a complete idiot. These actions have been calculated steps to take away the voice of the people and eliminate a single source of truth as things get worse and worse.
What a dumpster fire. Meanwhile, I’m still getting alerts from my local fire department through twitter. Doesn’t exactly make me feel safe.
Ours sends normal texts through the emergency system. Works ok.
Ours does too but the tweets always seem to get sent out first.
It’s pathetic really.
Are we referring to Musk as a glitch now?
Guarantee this is related to the Trump indictments.
Which of them goes back so far?
He was running for office for 2016 versus Hillary, but the run up to the election started way before that. Plus I’m sure Elon decided to maybe erase 6 to 12 months before Trump really went Twitter crazy just to make it seem less suspicious.
And all those websites that embedded tweets are now fucked.
And Elon Musk drove another spike into twitter. Websites are going to know not to embed tweets anymore, which will cut out another avenue of traffic to Twitter.
What a idiot.
Websites are going to know not to embed tweets anymore
They’ll forget within two weeks.
Who the hell doesn’t just use a fucking screenshot?
Everyone should have anticipated this. Twitter is a dead zone now.
twitter was a public register documenting many events worldwide and he’s actively destroying it.
On the bright side if you go and twat now “screw you future historians trying to figure out stuff” you might manage to annoy someone in a thousand years.
Hmm come to think of it. People should be make random references right now to really mess with the future. “I saw Zoey today, her brother John is called the Messiah by some”
“Glitch”
I am sure that there was a lot of proof of a lot of wrongdoing in those tweets. And now they are miraculously gone.
losing old media, just like myspace
I wouldn’t mind not having to see her dead serial killer eyes ever again.
