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Twitter/X has removed all media posted before 2014
- rcme 3y ago[flagged]
- lapcat 3y agoWhy would you complain about it if you weren't using the platform?
- anonzzzies 3y agoThat is definitely not a question asked enough. Many people complaining about things they don’t use/vote for/etc. So they want to use but don’t because ‘it’s is not what I want’ or lie they don’t and yet do (which is better).
- tuwtuwtuwtuw 3y agoYou can complain over things even if you don't use them. It's very common for people to say that X is bad even if they are not using X. Here is an actual live real world example: I find it silly that Apples mouse charge port is located on the bottom of the mouse because then you can't use it while charing. I would never buy such a mouse.
- lapcat 3y agoI think you're missing my point. The question isn't whether you can complain about it, the question is whether you would complain about it if you weren't using Twitter.
- rcme 3y agoExactly. Rather than complain, it would make more sense to go use a different platform. I don’t think that was your intended point, though.
- lapcat 3y agoNo, it wasn't my point. My point is that someone who doesn't use Twitter probably wouldn't even notice that media before 2014 were deleted. And even if they did notice, they probably wouldn't care. Twitter users complain about Twitter because they notice and they care. There are many reasons to leave Twitter. In fact, I did leave Twitter last year. But this particular issue would be a strange "final straw". If you had to leave a platform because of every annoyance, then you wouldn't be able to use any platforms.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- ttepasse 3y agoYou can "use" the platform without being a user of the platform: Clicking a link to a tweet or reading an article with embedded tweets. Useful habit, if you're a journalist or a blogger or such: never ever use native embeds, if you're caring about the longevity of your articles.
- amadeuspagel 3y agoAwesome. But what about the media posted after 2014? And when will they stop people posting new media, returning it to a text only site, forcing people to put at least some effort into trolling? It's easy to troll people into quote RTing you with images.
- gsatic 3y agoNothing is free forever especially if it is Ad funded.
- aa1234556 3y ago[dead]
- LocalH 3y agoReading the thread, it seems like what they've actually done is broken old t.co links. https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1692928633004757144 https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1692928633004757144 If they were removing old media, then I doubt that said media would still be present on the CDN. https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1692926763481862438 https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1692926763481862438 I'm no Musk fan, but I still try to ensure that my criticism of him and/or Twitter (I refuse to call it X) is accurate.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoArchiveTeam backs up link shorteners. Might have saved some of this corpus.
- kemayo 3y agoSpecifically, it looks like they've broken any http links to t.co, while the newer https ones still work. The practical effect of this is actually worse than the thread stated -- all old media and links on Twitter are broken (at least, since 2010 when they started using t.co). But perhaps they can fix it by restoring the http version of t.co?
- computerfriend 3y agoMy guess as to what happened: they wanted to clean up t.co URLs so ran a query like "select all words in tweets starting with https://t.co/ https://t.co/" and deleted all entries not present in that search, accidentally deleting all the plain http ones.
- distract8901 3y agoThat sounds exactly as jank and half-assed as I would expect from twitter these days.
- 40yearoldman 3y ago[flagged]
- stateofinquiry 3y agoEven if title is misleading, this is a good reminder that you don't own or control anything you post to online platforms.
- mrwnmonm 3y agoWhat should I do then?
- progrus 3y agoAccept that the universe is not in your control, and go with the flow.
- ativzzz 3y ago[flagged]
- dang 3y agoPlease don't post internet cliché comments here.
- manuelmoreale 3y agoI’d say get a domain and use a personal website to post content you care about.
- Avshalom 3y agoAnd back it up regularly to local/personal storage.
- mcpackieh 3y agoWhat do you think you should do? There's nothing here for you to do.
- znpy 3y agoPost original links only, knowing they might rot as well. Nothing is eternal (no matter what the marketing folks will tell you)
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoMy question is, are we going to highlight every single substantive change to Twitter as it morphs into WeChat? I think the fact that there’s no valid alternative means that we’re going to probably get stuck in the cycle where people are continuing to expect Twitter to revert or somehow go back to the old Twitter - and being frustrated and dissatisfied that it isn’t But they are still using it!
- afdsogionio 3y ago[dead]
- matsemann 3y agoI feel half of Norway collectively moved to bluesky two weeks ago. Mastodon people couldn't overcome the hurdle of selecting a server, and hence it didn't get much widespread traction or adoption. But bluesky most people found each other quickly and just continued there.
- lukeschlather 3y agoWeChat works because it is government-backed and I don't really see how Twitter can morph into WeChat without an authoritarian regime controlling it, promoting it, and stamping out the competition. Having a simple tool for publicly posting snippets of text seems like a useful thing for a free society though and people are still using Twitter because it still mostly serves that goal. People are highlighting every substantial change because each change moves the needle to where it doesn't serve that purpose for some. Although it's not a hard line and even when it becomes unfit for purpose, it may be better than nothing and also it may be hard to stop using it (you may have a job that involves posting to Twitter, and you can't stop posting to Twitter until you find somewhere else to post.)
- qbasic_forever 3y agoWow I wonder how much record of the arab spring protests and uprising are now lost forever. Those protests were all around 2010 to 2012 or so and was in my mind what really pushed Twitter into the public consciousness. I hope the Library of Congress managed to archive all that stuff like they said they would years ago, it would be a big loss to historians for it to disappear overnight.
- the-dude 3y agoYou think Arab Spring was good? For whom?
- mrwnmonm 3y agoOf course it was good.
- qbasic_forever 3y agoI didn't say anything either way. I think everyone can agree that losing a huge record of how it happened is a big loss.
- distract8901 3y agoThe parent comment did not say anything about whether or not it was good or bad, simply that it was historic and that the record of it should be preserved
- senkora 3y ago
- DueDilligence 3y ago[dead]
- bandyaboot 3y agoThat X logo is such terrible UI on devices that use an X icon to close windows.
- benj111 3y agoYes. That's the only problem with it....
- bandyaboot 3y agoI don’t know if I’m reading the tone of this reply wrong, but I didn’t suggest in any way that that’s the only problem with it.
- benj111 3y agoIt was a snarky tone. But I wasn't suggesting that you were suggesting that that's the only problem with it.
- kwertyoowiyop 3y agoThough maybe it’s a hint?
- amoss 3y agoIt really is easier to refer to it as ex-twitter.
- gala8y 3y agoAnd I have removed my accounts. X was too much. No, thank you. One time Twitter was a nice place. That was a long time ago.
- VancouverMan 3y agoConsider yourself lucky that you were able to have usable accounts. Whenever I tried to sign up, even years before the recent ownership change, the newly-created account would be automatically locked within minutes, and I'd be forced to give a phone number to unlock it. I wasn't going to do something stupid like that, of course. That kind of a user experience, even a long time ago, wasn't so nice.
- znpy 3y agoFriendly reminder that Twitter used to (and maybe still does) offer a “sign in with twitter” feature, and that users should review which serviced they signed up to with their twitter identity. If there is any, either add an email address or find a way to move your data off that peofile.
- gunapologist99 3y agoWe should all still blame Elon retroactively. It's not nice to point out that Twitter was a disaster before him.
- infofarmer 3y agoAs the old joke goes, whichever platform you're moving to, the average niceness of both X and that will stand to benefit.
- joemaller1 3y agoOne of my greatest misconceptions and disappointments was believing anything on the internet would be permanent.
- baz00 3y agoBased on this level of business acumen I really wish Musk would buy TikTok.
- justin66 3y agoI wonder if the guy posting even knows that those of us without Twitter/X accounts cannot read any followup comments to his post, and that when we go to his (or anyone else's) main profile we just see some random ass comments from a long time ago. And the search URL he included doesn't work at all. Twitter is already a broken platform for sharing your thoughts with others. Congratulations on discovering a way it just became even more broken.
- wredue 3y agoI was wondering wtf. This was actually bad for me recently, cause I was unable to find tweets from a utility. Twitter would only show me tweets from random years ago, none of which were newer than 5 years old. Later, I saw that they had tweeted about outages, and I just couldn’t see it cause I dont have an account. This has not convinced me to get an account. I hope it convinces businesses to stop using twitter and Facebook as main platforms for pushing status notes.
- bavell 3y agoidc about businesses using Twitter for comms but I have a huge problem with official govt agencies using it as their exclusive means of comms with citizens. I'm cool with Twitter being run into the ground if it helps us recognize the need/ develop a solution for a proper govt->citizen alerting system that doesn't involve proprietary and scummy businesses.
- frodowtf 3y agoIt will always stay "Twitter" simply because you cannot use a search engine with "X"
- cvccvroomvroom 3y agoBuild sand castles on the shores of corporations, expect them to be swept away at any moment. So people need to learn the lesson.
- mgiannopoulos 3y agoThe issue seems to be fixed https://twitter.com/EllenDeGeneres/status/440322224407314432 https://twitter.com/EllenDeGeneres/status/440322224407314432
- reportgunner 3y agoWho does actually care about this photo ? Is it some kind of artistic heritage ? I don't understand why it would be a problem to delete it or who would be harmed by it.
- mgiannopoulos 3y agoNot many people would care if this was deleted from Twitter. The photo has already been reproduced endlessly in other media anyway. I only posted this link because it was provided as an example of the terrible “loss” by the original poster on Twitter. I guess the people who consider pre-Musk Twitter a great thing would be sad that a big moment in the history of the site was lost (the tweet had some record for likes/impressions for some time from what I understand).