TinyPizza@kbin.social to Politics@kbin.social · 1 year ago#BlackLivesMatter tweets vanishing 10 years after hashtag startedwww.axios.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up186arrow-down1external-link#BlackLivesMatter tweets vanishing 10 years after hashtag startedwww.axios.comTinyPizza@kbin.social to Politics@kbin.social · 1 year agomessage-square31fedilinkfile-text
35% of #BlackLivesMatter tweets created between 2013 and 2021 are no longer available on Twitter, report finds.
minus-squareArugulaZ@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoBit rot? Forgive an old Gen X gamer, but that’s a term I heard thrown around in the 1990s to refer to the steady decay of optical media; CD-ROMs and such. Has the definition been changed? Or perhaps addended?
minus-squareDreamyDolphin@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoOops, good catch - “link rot” was the term I was thinking of, should have wiki’d it before so confidently posting.
Bit rot? Forgive an old Gen X gamer, but that’s a term I heard thrown around in the 1990s to refer to the steady decay of optical media; CD-ROMs and such. Has the definition been changed? Or perhaps addended?
Oops, good catch - “link rot” was the term I was thinking of, should have wiki’d it before so confidently posting.