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#BlackLivesMatter tweets vanishing 10 years after hashtag started (www.axios.com)

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35% of #BlackLivesMatter tweets created between 2013 and 2021 are no longer available on Twitter, report finds.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oops, good catch - "link rot" was the term I was thinking of, should have wiki'd it before so confidently posting.