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If you’ve had your X (formerly Twitter) account for more than nine years, you might want to review your past tweets.
Users have noticed that photos and links posted on the platform before December 2014 have been removed and replaced with inactive URLs.
A famous example is the oscar selfie posted by Ellen DeGeneres in March 2014, which disappeared from her tweet, though it has since reappeared.
It’s unclear if this is an accident due to a technical problem in X or a deliberate cost-cutting exercise to ease demand on the company’s servers.
Musk has yet to address the issue, though he admitted in a post on Saturday that X ‘may fail’, shortly after saying that it will remove the blocking function.
The famous Oscars selfie posted by Ellen DeGeneres in March 2014 disappeared from the tweet, though it has since reappeared.
Elon Musk has been criticized for ‘more vandalism’ of X, formerly known as Twitter, though it may just be a temporary glitch
If you only joined X in the last 8.5 years, this new issue won’t affect you.
But if you’ve been a long-time user and have tweeted your prized photos, it might be worth checking to see if they’re still there.
To find your own tweets from before December 2014, type the following into the Twitter search bar: ‘From:[your username] until:2014-01-01’.
In doing this, MailOnline found that some images still appeared in tweets from before December 2014, but took screenshots in case their days were numbered.
it’s worth it too download your twitter filewhich allows you to save tweets and all the media within them.
The latest X issue affects posts containing images, but also hyperlinks converted via Twitter’s (t.co) built-in URL shortener, according to the edge.
The tweets themselves are displayed, but it’s the content within them that is having trouble displaying correctly.
Billionaire Elon Musk (pictured) took over as owner of Twitter in October 2022 and changed his name to X in July
The content appears as URLs, but they’re not clickable, and copying and pasting them into another search bar just takes you back to the original tweet.
Tom Coates, X user, who detailed the problem in a chain of publicationsHe called it “more hooliganism” from Twitter’s owner and “another thrift exercise.”
“Twitter has now removed all media posted before 2014,” he said.
“That is, so far, almost a decade worth of images and video from the early 2000s removed from the service.
“All images and videos removed and replaced with a dead link.”
In a message added below Coates’ first post, X said the missing images are “still stored on the Twitter/X servers” but that the links are broken “at the moment.”
Regardless of this, Coates noted that the images are “still effectively removed from the public internet.”
It’s unclear if Musk’s team plans to restore the tweet images; MailOnline has contacted the company for more information.
In a message, X said that the missing images are “still stored on the Twitter/X servers” but that the links are broken “at the moment.”
Elon Musk admits that X (formerly known as Twitter) ‘can fail’ just as he is criticized for ‘more vandalism’
This may just be a temporary technical issue for the company, which has experienced outages believed to be due to tweaks to the site by developers.
Outages have been a fixture since Musk began running Twitter, leading to speculation that there aren’t enough staff to fix his problems.
It comes as the billionaire owner admitted in a surprisingly honest message over the weekend that X “can fail.”
On Saturday he posted: The sad truth is that there are no big “social networks” right now.
“We may miss, as many have predicted, but we will do everything we can to make sure there is at least one.”
Musk recently sparked a backlash by declaring his intention to remove the ability to ‘block’ other users via X, excluding private direct messages.
If enforced, it could mean users have to deal with more harassment and the consequences of more unregulated free speech.
While it’s unclear if Musk will go ahead with disabling the blocking feature, many users on the platform have pleaded with the billionaire to reconsider.
“Blocking is a critical peace of mind issue for many people because it usually keeps cyberbullies going,” said one X user.
Musk took over Twitter in October and has just changed its name to X as part of plans to make it what he describes as an “everything” app.
A shiny ‘X’ logo was installed at the platform’s San Francisco headquarters before being removed due to complaints from local residents.