News
Musk directly deleted all Twitter photos before 2014!"
Last Saturday, a ten-year veteran Twitter user angrily denounced Musk's "epic act of destruction." His tweet received nearly 14,000 likes and over 7k retweets.
This X (formerly Twitter) user is Tom Coates, who posted a tweet on August 19 stating that every image and video in a series of his tweets from 2013 had been deleted and replaced with dead links.
After investigation, he found that over a decade's worth of images and videos from 2000 to 2014 have been removed from the X platform. The most obvious evidence is that when opening a tweet from before 2014, the image originally below the text has turned into a black link, and the link cannot be clicked.
Speculation
With 2023's storage technology and backend architecture, there is no technical issue preventing the maintenance of old data. Therefore, someone must have deliberately forced the deletion. Why? Is it because the content is unnecessary, or to forget the past? From the perspective of the content market, this has already damaged it, as it no longer maintains integrity and rules, becoming more of a marketing platform and tool, like WeChat. This might also be what the management wants to achieve. It must be said that Americans are very direct in their approach, without beating around the bush.
Conclusion
The direction of Twitter and the evolution of WeChat certainly have similarities. WeChat has evolved into a closed content + payment + communication + open platform. The evolution of Twitter remains to be seen, but in terms of direction, we can set up tracking points in advance and secure positions, because Musk is likely to achieve it, and quickly.