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X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014 (www.theverge.com)
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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.

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[–] hh93@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

It's more that finally it starts to show how stupid firing most of the staff was

Most people in tech anticipated it to run fine for a while but then eventually stuff like this will show up more often because you don't have people that actually understand the code anymore and which kind of side-effects to think about with changes