X Experiences Major Malfunction As Pre-December 2014 Images and Links Erased
Elon Musk-owned X Corp faces a new headache as a major outage has deleted messages, images and links posted on X prior to December 2014. The platform, formerly known as Twitter, appears to have lost all old data, including the famous group selfie (group-fie) taken by Ellen DeGeneres at the Oscars in 2014.
Reports claim that the outage appears to have affected data on X that was published before December 2014, but neither Elon Musk nor X’s CEO have confirmed the cause of the problem and whether users will get their content back on the platform.
According to information provided by The Verge, it is likely that the use of Twitter’s Enhanced URL Enrichment, which showed previews of websites and other attachments, exceeded the 140-character limit provided by Twitter in 2016. The problem has caused a wide stir among people. In the last few days, since their messages are not available, X is on the platform of a complaint against Musk and his team.
Elon Musk has made several changes at X since he took over the company last year. He has renamed Twitter to X, and other features were also renamed. Tweets are now called posts, and retweets are now called retweets for users. Twitter Blue is now X Blue and several other changes have been made in recent months. But in addition to these, Musk has also led a massive reshuffle of engineers, tech types, and other cost-cutting that includes not paying office rent, not paying a cloud provider, and more.
All of these have already led to massive downtime that appears to have been fixed now, but Musk and Co. have a big job ahead of them to fix the platform and earn the business to carry out the mission Musk bought Twitter for in 2022.
