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.
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?
My Geocities page :(
a piece of history i wish i could pull up and remind myself how far i’ve come in web design
Livejournal would like a word with you.
Current mood: Amused 😄
Current music: The sound of my own thoughts…