X (Twitter) fixes a bug that prevented images from displaying in older tweets.

He rejection X which prevented images from being displayed in tweets posted prior to 2014 has been resolved, at least in part. The support service of the social network, formerly known as Twitter, reported that they had fixed the error, although the problem will keep for several days.

Origin erroralthough some have pointed to Elon Musk as the culprit. Over the weekend, X’s owner kept quiet, posting only one tweet that said: I expected they might fail as a social network. The support profile also did not comment, so various theories arose about possible causes.

Some users suggested that the problem was caused domain change from Twitter.com to X.com. The bug only affected messages prior to December 2014, including selfie Ellen DeGeneres’ memorable performance at that year’s Oscars. On the other side, the error is probably due to a change in search APIs in July 2016, when URL improvement was introduced.

Without detailed information about the failure, it is difficult to determine its cause, especially when Communication X is in the hands of Elon Musk, Linda Iaccarino or support. With the advent of the tycoon, a wave of layoffs swept through social networks in various areas, including communications.

On the contrary, Elon Musk has dedicated several mentions to his interest in removing the blocking feature. A few days ago, the owner of X said that blocking accounts does not make sense, so he suggests enhanced version to mute users. The new feature will prevent interaction (replies or quotes) just like direct messages.

In accordance with Muskthe lock and mute functions are “partially broken”.

Elon Musk warns X could fail

While Elon Musk is an expert on promising new features, he understands that things can go wrong. He top tweet posted over the weekend they will do their best to create a good social networka statement hard to believe after witnessing a flurry of questionable decisions.

“The sad truth is that there are no big ‘social media’ right now,” Musk said. “We may fail, as many predicted, but we will do our best to have at least one,” he said. Earlier, Elon said that they need to make the user interface “much prettier” or what video should be fullscreen by default.

Elon Musk promises were clouded by them poor implementation potential. The decision to cut a significant portion of the staff has affected the rollout of new features. In addition to this, the tycoon usually activates one or the other crazysuch as showing your tweets to all users to increase your reach, blocking links to other social networks, or slowing down traffic to websites you don’t like.

The arrival of Linda Iaccarino to the post of CEO to restore the confidence of advertisers did not have the expected effect. Although X says he’s not as toxic as he’s made out to be, social media ad sales are down 59%. In contrast, the social network has paid thousands of dollars to proven creators such as the controversial Andrew Tate, who is in jail for sex trafficking.