Elon Musk has been playing with the site’s settings since the day he bought Twitter almost a year ago. The famous billionaire, who changed the name of the site to X two weeks ago, recently stated that he would remove the blocking feature from X. Now another problem has arisen.
X deletes 3 years of Twitter’s footage
The social media platform, formerly known as Twitter and recently rebranded as X, is having trouble displaying images posted on the site between 2011 and 2014.
The issue came to light on Saturday when X user Tom Coates noted that the famous selfie Ellen DeGeneres shared at the Oscars in 2014, which quickly set the record for most retweets, is no longer being viewed.
Shortened links using Twitter’s built-in URL shortener also don’t work properly. Even if the lost images start to come back, that doesn’t mean it’s just a simple mistake. According to some experts, Team X tested something and backed off when they got backlash.
Twitter didn’t support image uploading internally until 2011, so a number of helpful image uploading services emerged before then. One of them, TwitPic, shut down in 2014. So these hosted images are long gone, but now it seems that images posted directly to Twitter between 2011 and 2014 are also gone.
According to one view, something went horribly wrong when the company was trying to migrate the site to X.com as part of its recent rebranding. Note that this was around the time Twitter added its “advanced URL enrichment” feature that showed previews for links and allowed adding photos without affecting the 140 character limit.
Therefore, images sent directly to Twitter after 2016 are thought to be unaffected and therefore still viewable on the platform. To tell you the truth, it’s not entirely clear why the old images on X aren’t showing, and they’ll likely be restored before long.
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