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Specifically, 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 t

by kemayo 3y ago

Specifically, 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 ago
My 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 ago
  That sounds exactly as jank and half-assed as I would expect from twitter these days.
  - 40yearoldman 3y ago
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    - kaba0 3y ago
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  - koromak 3y ago
    Bro doesn't even have a dry run button
- archo 3y ago
  Is it possible in an effort to reduced hosting costs they are intending to deleting the data? Are they floating the big red balloon to gauge customer reaction?