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There are about 3 categories of news about Twitter products, now known as X: genuine product launches, Elon whims, and bugs. The first is the significant adjustments made to the service, the elements that any site can have; in between, everything that can be done within about 24 hours after the capricious owner of the company has asked for its deployment; And the latter are the inevitable consequences of a company that did the first two things with a shrinking workforce, having fired, fired or fired around two-thirds of its workers in a tumultuous nine-month period.
It is difficult to distinguish them. Take, for example, the news that the site removed all photographs published before 2014. From the Verge:
X, formerly known as Twitter until its recent rebranding, is having trouble displaying old posts with attached photographs or links exchanged through Twitter’s built-in URL shortener. It’s unclear exactly when the challenge began, however, he highlighted it Saturday afternoon in an article written by Tom Coates. and a Brazilian vtuber, @DaniloTakagi, had denounced it a few days earlier.