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.

  • @[email protected]English
    100•11 months ago

    Not a glitch. Costs less to dump the data than maintain it, plus a lot of cringey Musk tweets were in there.

    • @cesiumEnglish
      36•11 months ago

      The images are still available through direct links. The t.co redirects are broken.

        • @[email protected]English
          10•11 months ago

          Tweets were 140 characters including urls to photos. It means the photo or url linked no longer works because users would shorten links instead of the full image url.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•11 months ago

        How do I get the direct links from my old tweets? They have the t.co links in the tweet. I didn’t make a list of all the t.co links direct links across the whole site.

    • Fish [Indiana]English
      10•11 months ago

      If Musk was worried about cringey tweets then he would just delete his account.