Over the weekend, phrase unfold about an issue affecting {old} tweets, and finally, we narrowed it all the way down to something posted earlier than December 2014, both with a picture or a hyperlink that had been shortened by Twitter. A publish by Tom Coates alerted many individuals to the issue and he famous {that a} 2014 Ellen DeGeneres selfie from the Oscars that took the crown as “most retweeted ever” was even lacking its picture.
Now the @Assist account at X, the corporate previously generally known as Twitter till Elon Musk rebranded it, says, “Over the weekend we had a bug that prevented us from displaying photographs from earlier than 2014. No photographs or knowledge had been misplaced. We fastened the bug, and the problem will probably be totally resolved within the coming days.”
There are not any particulars talked about within the publish about what the bug was, when it began taking place, or why it would take an unspecified period of time to resolve. In trying up the issue, we realized that changes by Twitter in 2016 used metadata on tweets posted from December 2014 going ahead to fill in extra knowledge from linked webpages and permit attachments that didn’t eat up a tweet’s character depend, and it was solely earlier posts that had been hit by the bug.