It seems that X’s migration from the old Twitter branding is going to take a lot more unwinding as yet.
Over the weekend, reports emerged that all images and videos attached to any tweet created before 2014 had been rendered inactive in the app, in what initially seemed to be a cost-reduction measure.
More vandalism from @elonmusk. Twitter has now removed all media posted before 2014. Thats – so far – almost a decade of pictures and videos from the early 2000s removed from the service.
For example, here’s a search of my media tweets from before 2014. https://t.co/FU6K34oqmA
— Tom Coates (@tomcoates) August 19, 2023
Many speculated that this was likely caused by a reduction in storage, or a change to X’s network configuration, designed to lessen its data load, and thus reduce the company’s operating costs. But various investigations have since found that the media elements are still available, they’re just not where they should be, and as such, X’s system is having…
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