#BlackLivesMatter tweets vanishing 10 years after hashtag started
TinyPizza@kbin.social to 
Politics@kbin.social – 92 points – 
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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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I think we tend to overestimate how solid things are, even in the digital world. The concept of "bit-rot", for instance, shows how online links degrade over time as sites move or, say, a major website preparing for an IPO enrages its users who then delete or edit all their comments in protest (lol, like that'd ever happen).
Semi-relevant xkcd
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.