Watching a feature-length movie on Twitter has been possible for the last few hours thanks to a glitch in the platform’s copyright system that may have been caused by the few staff that remained with the company after Elon Musk took over. Userin fact, came to post the whole movie Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift with two-minute clips scattered across 50 tweets.
The aforementioned movie and others that have also been posted, yes, are no longer available on Twitter. The account of a user who shared 50 tweets with 2-minute clips was also suspended.. However, Twitter’s copyright protection system was supposed to delete messages immediately after they were officially published, and not after a few hours. In fact, the platform policy prohibits the distribution of this content.
“Twitter will respond to reports of alleged copyright infringement, such as allegations of unauthorized use of a copyrighted image as a profile photo or header, allegations of unauthorized use of a copyrighted image or video by an author uploaded through our media hosting services , or Tweets that contain links to allegedly infringing material.”
Instead, the clips were around long enough for the content to go viral because there were few employees left on the platform to keep the services active. Indeed, this is another proof. the little hiccups the social network has been experiencing since Musk has been at the helm and in particular since more than 4,000 employees have been laid off.
Twitter engineers have been warning for weeks that there will be minor disruptions to the social network.
Curiously, some Twitter engineers have been warning for weeks about a general collapse of the social network, caused by the low number of employees who have been with the company since Elon Musk took over. They also emphasize that small beetlesfor example, one that caused a temporary return of a manual retweet or one that caused problems with two-step verification can affect a larger problem, which is the inoperability of the social network.
Twitter, in fact, almost stopped working this weekend, after Elon Musk issued an ultimatum that displeased hundreds of his company’s employees, who finally decided to retire. The tycoon, fearing sabotage, even ordered the offices closed.
Source: Hiper Textual
