Acknowledged and fixed a bug that X (old Twitter) could not display images before 2014



Around August 20, 2023, a problem was reported that ``X (old Twitter) does not display images before 2014''. X did not comment when the problem was first discovered, and volunteer analysis found that there was a problem with redirects from shortened URLs, but on August 22, 2023, X acknowledged the problem. announced a fix.




X has made major changes such as charging for services and changing brand names without prior notice. For this reason, when it was first reported that images from 2014 and earlier were not displayed, there was speculation that 'images from 2014 and earlier were deleted from the server?' It was discovered that there was a problem with the redirect from the shortened URL service ' t.co ' provided by.

It is impossible to access images and videos posted before 2014 on X (Twitter), and there is a problem with redirects from shortened links - GIGAZINE



Even after it was discovered that there was a problem with redirects from 't.co', there was no statement from X, so it was still unclear whether the problem was just a bug or something intentional. . Meanwhile, on August 22, 2023, the X official support account said, ``A problem occurred on the weekend where images from 2014 and earlier could not be displayed.The image data was not lost.We fixed the bug. The problem is expected to be completely resolved within a few days.' He announced that the problem of not being able to display images was just a bug and has been fixed.




At the time of writing the article, it seems that images before 2014 were displayed without problems, and as an example in the article when the problem was discovered, `` Ellen, a comedian who served as a moderator at the 86th Academy Awards in 2014・If you check DeGeneres' post with a photo taken by actor Bradley Cooper, you can view the image correctly.




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