While Elon Musk’s management of Twitter resulted in the great majority of employees being dismissed or resigning, the service is still operational and has not yet completely collapsed, but we can already see cracks appearing in the structure. The automated copyright strike/takedown mechanism on Twitter was found to be broken last night.
A user gained notoriety for posting The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in its entirety in two-minute segments across a 50-tweet thread. Things become even stranger from here while it is offline this morning:
- The media was never taken down in its entirety. Usually, when a takedown occurs, a notification saying “this material cannot be shown” appears. Though the media is stripped, the tweet and account will still be live. It looks that someone at Twitter had to manually suspend the whole account in this instance.
- And as more proof of a glitch, I can still read the suspended account’s tweets right now on my phone. The movie is really playing in a tweet that I am currently seeing on my phone, a residual effect of an account suspension. The tweets I favorited the night before to write this post this morning are still available for viewing, but I can’t see it on my desktop.
Again, the mechanism for copyright seems fundamentally flawed. Yes, this specific account was suspended, but only after it gained widespread attention and was maybe noticed by an employee. Another whole movie, the 1995 film Hackers, was uploaded in a similar thread by a different person and is still accessible as of the time of this writing.
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