X fixes glitch that caused media from pre-2014 posts to disappear, says 'no images or data were lost'
Twitter) users can finally breathe a sigh of relief as a recent glitch that affected the visibility of images and links in tweets shared before December 2014 has finally been successfully fixed by the micro-blogging platform.
Reports of the issue initially surfaced over the weekend, with concerns arising regarding posts made before 2014, especially those containing images or shortened links from the platform.
The glitch, which came to light through a post by Tom Coates, caught attention for affecting even the iconic 2014 Oscars selfie by Ellen DeGeneres, which became the most retweeted ever post.
It was a picture of her with famous people like Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. Later, the picture came back, but not everyone got their pictures back.
In response, the @Support account of X released a statement confirming the resolution of the problem and gave assurance that no data or images were permanently lost.
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The post stated, «Over the weekend we had a bug that prevented us from displaying images from before 2014. We fixed the bug, and the issue will be fully resolved in the coming days.»
They didn't give a lot of details about what exactly went wrong, when it started, or why it will need some more time to be totally fixed. But what was discovered is that tweets from December 2014 and after that
