Ellen DeGeneres’ 2014 Oscars tweet got its picture back, but most others are still broken.

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.

    • hh93English
      25•1 year ago

      It’s more that finally it starts to show how stupid firing most of the staff was

      Most people in tech anticipated it to run fine for a while but then eventually stuff like this will show up more often because you don’t have people that actually understand the code anymore and which kind of side-effects to think about with changes

      • @IntralexicalEnglish
        11•1 year ago

        To zoom out even more: It’s just one more incident showing how fragile investor-sustained digital information systems are.

        Every website that came before the current crop of mega-scale privacy-invading behemoths also failed, and took down all their user data and history with them. Why would anyone expect Twitter to be any different?

          • @mmagodEnglish
            3•1 year ago

            a piece of history i wish i could pull up and remind myself how far i’ve come in web design

              • @JimmycakesEnglish
                3•1 year ago

                But like I don’t know the url. My geocities are better left in my memories

                • Flying SquidEnglish
                  2•1 year ago

                  I had a Tripod page dedicated to a spider in my office I named Mr. Jibbles and took low-res pictures of him with my first digital camera (came free with a copy of Windows XP). I’d kind of like to see Mr. Jibbles again, but I’m sure he’s not as jibbly as I remember.

        • @FFarOutEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Every website that came before the current crop of mega-scale privacy-invading behemoths also failed, and took down all their user data and history with them.

          Livejournal would like a word with you.

          Current mood: Amused 😄
          Current music: The sound of my own thoughts…

          • @IntralexicalEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            They’re from before my time. But they also hosted some art that I found after the fact that I really love, so I’m glad (and a bit surprised) to see the data is still up.

            That said, they’re owned and operated by Russians now. So…

    • @totallynotarobotEnglish
      23•1 year ago

      Doubleplusgoof

      Edit: leaving my typo because it amuses me

      • @CryophiliaEnglish
        7•1 year ago

        Man, if it wasn’t a typo I’d think you’re a fucking genius, that’s a really witty one

        I’m gonna steal that for all the times fascists go “oops, looks like I accidentally further fucked up society, wow I’m so clumsy haha totally accidental”

    • @IntralexicalEnglish
      11•1 year ago

      Eh. This is on us. URL shorteners and Twitter in particular have always been scarily brittle and opaque,. With nobody actively maintaining the data, why would you think that it would be around forever?

      • @[email protected]English
        7•1 year ago

        Exactly. It’s always been likely to be broken by someone at some point. Url shorteners are a thing mostly because of twitters original character limit. Or at least that’s when they gained popularity.