Most photographs and links published before a specific date are deleted by a defect in X.
Old postings containing images or any URLs converted utilizing the platform's built-in URL shortener are having problems appearing on X, formerly known as Twitter.
It's unclear when the issue first surfaced, although it was addressed last Thursday and Saturday afternoon in posts on the platform.
Videos were unaffected by the fault, but links to YouTube, for instance, are now just text with the t.co URL broken. The bug seems to affect most tweets published before December 2014, albeit it didn't affect videos.
Significantly, Twitter began permitting the addition of videos with tweets in 2016 after adding native support for photos in 2011.
A post on the platform on Saturday afternoon revealed that the problem had an impact on one of the most well-known tweets ever—a selfie taken by Ellen DeGeneres, host of the 2014 Oscars, while she was surrounded by celebrities like Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and others.
With over 2 million shares on the social media site, it rapidly rose to the top of the list of "most retweeted" images ever.
This, and the CEO of firm X (Linda Iacarino) or owner (Elon Musk) have not yet made any comments on the issue public.
The fact that the actual media that was posted wasn't removed suggests an error or glitch of some sort, one of many that have appeared since Musk bought Twitter in late October, despite some people's speculation that this was a planned cost-cutting measure by Musk. widespread layoffs of employees in the past.
It is interesting to note that there is another old photo on Twitter that is still running and this photo was posted on the account of former US President (Barack Obama) after he won his re-election campaign in 2012.
The timing of the removal of broken images and links appears to be related to updates made by Twitter in 2016 which added "URL Optimization" to show previews of linked web pages and original files that did not count toward the then-character allowed 140 characters per Tweet. The metadata for these extensions began to "appear" in December 2014, according to the developer documentation.
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