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Source：Defense Information Network Editor：Digital Culture Time：2025-06-26 16:00:13

Well,Apps Archives that's a bummer.

X (formerly known as Twitter) has been around for a long, long time. That means there are lots of old posts on the site, and according to a report from The Verge, many of those old posts are now functionally useless thanks to a new bug that's erasing images from old tweets. Specifically, the site is having trouble with images that were attached to tweets via Twitter's URL shortener. Instead of displaying images, a lot of those tweets are now just displaying empty URLs.

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Per The Verge, it's happening to posts from before December 2014. Over the weekend, there was some speculation that perhaps the images had been deleted on purpose as a belt-tightening move, but some of them have since been restored. I can personally vouch that the famous Ellen DeGeneres Oscars selfie was gone over the weekend, but it's back now.

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As for why this happened, there's no definitive answer yet, though The Verge noted that Twitter added a feature to stop attachment URLs from counting against the character limit in 2016, with metadata that appeared around December 2014.

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In other words, something goofy happened behind-the-scenes and now a site that may or may not still employ engineers has to figure out how to fix it. If not, a substantial portion of internet history could go down the toilet.

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