You say this like it's a bad thing. https://t.co/gIX1FwCLQF

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 18, 2019

Finally, a tech story with a happy ending. https://t.co/6cEvs4Gswm

— Freddie Campion (@FreddieCampion) March 18, 2019

I'm deeply skeptical this was an accident. Flagrant incompetence may be bad PR, but it still sounds better than "we can't be bothered with the effort and cost of migrating and hosting 50 million old MP3s."

— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) March 18, 2019

It is unbelievable that they didn’t have more than one copy of this data, as in: I do not believe them when they say they lost it. https://t.co/TyyX9LbtPf

— Laurie Voss (@seldo) March 18, 2019

It reads like comedy (who uses it?!) but myspace deleting all music from 2003-15 is significant. Like geocities all over again. One day we’ll make a concerted effort to understand the first few decades of online culture and so much of it will be gonehttps://t.co/79o49U9ffW

— edwin (@edwinmingard) March 18, 2019

People think that Steve Albini and Vint Cerf overstate the issue of digital files being lost over time, and then Myspace goes and loses every bit of music ever uploaded - https://t.co/KwEGp6tKJS

— Stephen M. Blythe (@stephenemm) March 18, 2019

Serves them right. I logged in to delete my account a few years ago and it automatically emailed ALL my “friends” to say “Jill is back on MySpace and wants to connect with you!” https://t.co/SkHTHyYZZs

— Jıll Ƒoltz (@MadeSadEasily) March 18, 2019

For many people, this is not necessarily a bad thing. https://t.co/ZevMu2aVcz

— Peter Shankman (@petershankman) March 18, 2019

I would honestly love for Facebook to forget everything I’ve posted for the past 12 years https://t.co/aLfxl6QjGX

— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) March 18, 2019

Security through obscurity https://t.co/OcyYBlND9b

— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter) March 18, 2019

This is the best thing a tech company has done in the better part of a decade.https://t.co/T7e8ntIC0r

— Rob Flaherty (@Rob_Flaherty) March 18, 2019

This is what we call an "ideal scenario" when it comes to a place where all your teenage digital detritus had been residing. https://t.co/J288U4aeZ7

— ???? ?????? (@tehevilcannon) March 18, 2019

"A server migration project." Unplugging them all and throwing them in the dumpster, I assume? https://t.co/6JAROmhUFI

— Steve Koczela (@skoczela) March 18, 2019

Myspace accidentally lost all the music uploaded from its first 12 years in a server migration, losing over 50 million songs from 14 million artists. https://t.co/OyKB5Dxtw9

— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) March 18, 2019

Apparently the music links stopped a year ago, yet it's only coming up public knowledge now. Yowzers... https://t.co/lf2CTKZuyd

— KevinMc From TX (@KevinMcFromTX) March 18, 2019

The world's most benevolent lottery winner will buy all old blog-hosting sites and social networks and shut them down without warning. https://t.co/MbalwitBfn

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 18, 2019

The Internet: I remember all, particularly your most embarrassing high school moments. Don't think you can delete them.

Also the Internet: Whoops sorry everything you loved that's on here is gone https://t.co/o6h015zveJ

— Brian Fung (@b_fung) March 18, 2019

From irrelevant to unrecoverable ?‍♂️ https://t.co/1bVe6M9o3b

— Lance Ulanoff (@LanceUlanoff) March 18, 2019

To be fair when I worked at Myspace literally 90% of the content I had to wade through were people online-roleplaying as Twilight characters or WWE characters arguing and reporting each other for being fake 1000x per day. So not sure how much valuable content is gone. https://t.co/2BdxMPjj1R

— Southey Blanton (@southey) March 18, 2019

"In fairness, we were also unaware that we were still a thing." https://t.co/Y6h2Qq8mf8

— Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) March 18, 2019

A mercy killing by an engineer who I’d guess is about 25-34 https://t.co/QxxvX1Ru3C

— Matt Campbell (@mjc28_) March 18, 2019

I need to meet the person who was putting photos on Myspace in 2015 https://t.co/Z1GZmZ2I4r

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) March 18, 2019

"As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from Myspace." https://t.co/9DB6FqRQCd

— CNET (@CNET) March 18, 2019

How on earth did MySpace lose *twelve years* of people’s music?! https://t.co/9RL1O3j70u

— Anil Dash ? (@anildash) March 18, 2019

I definitely thought all of this stuff was already gone when they did that major rebrand and re-launch in like 2013. Hm. https://t.co/JegodK3axQ

— Lizzie Keiper (@lizziekeiper) March 18, 2019

Largely a positive public service? https://t.co/Zfic6MTZu1

— Dave Zatz (@davezatz) March 18, 2019

I know people are laughing about this, but I'm worried about the historical record if this someday ever happens to a site like Facebook.

We post everything online now instead of owning physical photos and tapes. If the data corrupts, we lose family history. https://t.co/WTONpMarSw

— PNW Policy Wonk (@PNWwonk) March 18, 2019

Oh thank god.

Seriously, though, this is brutal for indie musicians and undoubtedly a net negative. But less photographic evidence of my college years? I'll take it. https://t.co/XX6B1wwnWD

— Maggie Wiggin (@maggie162) March 18, 2019

It's like the burning of the Library of Alexandria, if the Library of Alexandria was filled exclusively with evidence of your terrible ska band. https://t.co/cVMM4QKJp8

— Tristin Hopper (@TristinHopper) March 18, 2019

I was never on MySpace but, Whoa. A good reminder that Free Services are Free, so backing up important stuff elsewhere's probably a good idea. (Who would've had anything critical still only on MySpace, I don't know) https://t.co/gPu0PtVQoc

— Joanna (@keepingfeet) March 18, 2019

My decision to never open a MySpace account looking better and better all the time. https://t.co/3tQaY4eCon

— Ed Bott (@edbott) March 18, 2019

Who among us hasn't deleted a production database? ??‍♀️ https://t.co/PVCko6kJZu

— United Lunch Alliance (@erinspice) March 18, 2019

Aspiring millennial politicians breath a sigh of relief https://t.co/BgJXhKAMIM

— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) March 18, 2019

Area Millennial Breathes Sigh of Relief https://t.co/rqjJbM6GA5

— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair (@senatorshoshana) March 18, 2019

tbh this is really great news for fighting data collection and digital trails. bad news for socio-digital history of the extreme angle selfie with blinding flash https://t.co/D3iiRrUQ7i

— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) March 18, 2019

Just last week, was looking at family photos from about 100 years ago. I think most people backing up to a single cloud service will not make it that long - it's going to take migration by hand over the decades. https://t.co/2VEBQbIRSB

— Michael Herf (@herf) March 18, 2019

...orrrrr they’re cost-cutting and they didn’t want to admit that “losing” all those files would be easier than saying “we won’t host these anymore” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/hSFyUwTtbc

— Alp Ozcelik (@alplicable) March 18, 2019

MySpace just kind of casually lost over a decade of culture. We need a solution to this problem before Twitter does the same https://t.co/eawYi52Gr0

— badidea ? (@0xabad1dea) March 18, 2019

This is a staggering number...and proof of how fragile digital archiving and infrastructure actually is. https://t.co/XMkPT29IbF

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine (@sterlewine) March 18, 2019

It was as if billions of "under construction" animated gifs and MIDI covers of Blink 182 songs suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. https://t.co/wrlZbWoPIe

— neontaster (@neontaster) March 18, 2019

Maybe check Geocities for backups?

Oh wait https://t.co/q92t150EpT

— Chris Messina ?‍☠️ (@chrismessina) March 18, 2019

"Someday, this will happen to Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, etc. Don't trust the platforms to archive your data." https://t.co/nCzc5nJOab

— Jesse Walker (@notjessewalker) March 18, 2019

It took a while for people to even notice that a decade’s worth of music was gone, and it doesn’t seem as though MySpace is particularly contrite about it. https://t.co/yPEx0RN9yg

— Vox (@voxdotcom) March 18, 2019

a) myspace still exists
b) they just lost 12 years of music https://t.co/ZdyZjavaEl

— Alanna Okun (@alanna) March 18, 2019

Myspace deleted 12 years’ worth of music in a botched server migration https://t.co/7CuWoUE7SH pic.twitter.com/Q3yLy5Cvfz

— The Verge (@verge) March 18, 2019

That can't be good -> Myspace deleted 12 years’ worth of music in a botched server migration

BTW, did you know that myspace still ranks for 1M+ keywords? https://t.co/3cYuHDRbET pic.twitter.com/JRTwZsTQ7f

— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) March 18, 2019

Myspace deleted 12 years’ worth of music in a botched server migration https://t.co/XJHrsRNI8E pic.twitter.com/cBy3pnMrW1

— ?????? ????? ? (@ruhanirabin) March 18, 2019

MySpace lost 13 years worth of user data after botched server migration https://t.co/WREpxvek5j via @campuscodi

— ZDNet (@ZDNet) March 18, 2019

MySpace lost 13 years worth of user data after botched server migration.

Site admits it via a message posted on its homepage.https://t.co/1Q6UqFs2ZX pic.twitter.com/r76NAKhKYH

— Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi) March 18, 2019

MySpace lost 13 years worth of user data after botched server migration https://t.co/A3Zxs7MEJQ by @campuscodi

— ZDNet (@ZDNet) March 18, 2019

i've never been so thankful https://t.co/pictq9vskp

— joe jonas fan account ? (@winkrepeat) March 18, 2019

마이스페이스는 밴드 홈피로 많이 쓰여서 자작곡 및 실황 녹화도 꽤 많았을 텐데, 마이그레이션 도중에 12년간 자료를 다 날렸다니, 이 무슨 코미디인가 싶지만, 달리 생각하면 돈을 벌어주지 않는 유저 데이터는 그냥 부채. 한 번의 실수로 탕감할 수 있다면 이 또한 유혹
https://t.co/PCPJx9JRtg

— Goodhyun 김국현 (@goodhyun) March 19, 2019

Myspace has lost all the music uploaded to the platform between 2003 and 2015, totaling more than 50 million songs from 14 million artists. https://t.co/3wU4AnrYwA

— Vox (@voxdotcom) March 19, 2019

Can’t help but think that MySpace did this on purpose just to remind people that MySpace still exists. https://t.co/PerOdxclox

— shackas (@shackas) March 19, 2019

Remember that scene in the 1975 SF film, ROLLERBALL, when the corporation controlled supercomputer Zero deletes the entire 13th century? How far fetched it must have seemed in 1970s, but it is coming...https://t.co/URardnJuZ7

— Andrew Nette (@Pulpcurry) March 19, 2019

Today I learned that about a year ago MySpace migrated servers and just.. lost all the music its users had uploaded between 2003 and 2015. With no backup. Don't trust tech platforms with your memories, folks! https://t.co/5WtLRv0WIt

— Evan Hill (@evanchill) March 19, 2019

This just might be the 2019 version of if a tree falls in the forest...

If a service everyone forgot exists looses some data barely anyone remembers was there, has any data really and truly been lost? ?https://t.co/5qGP9CvbJZ

— Ana Milicevic (@aexm) March 19, 2019

I've heard things you people wouldn't believe. The one song that band that opened for you did that wasn't a cover. NEW SONG DEMO MIX 2007. All those mp3s will be lost in time, like tears in rainhttps://t.co/S3phPRgaIf

— C/A/T (@catwithslashes) March 18, 2019

MySpace is still active, and accidentally deleted 12 years worth of music - Vox https://t.co/8LDAM5jb6d

— Marie Peppers (@MariePepperFord) March 18, 2019

Gee, will this also happen to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagerm? Since everything is being bet on today, I want some odds. ?????https://t.co/KVcgiNPKFp

— Eddie Goldman (@nhbnews) March 18, 2019

Myspace deleted 12 years’ worth of music in a botched server migration https://t.co/7CuWoUE7SH pic.twitter.com/sBjuCWAUFV

— The Verge (@verge) March 19, 2019

"Were you in a band with a Myspace page between 2003 and 2015? If you were, then any music you uploaded to the social media network is now gone."https://t.co/XQ5IWc8L2k

— Making Music Work (@makingmusicwork) March 18, 2019

Were you in a band with a #Myspace page between 2003 and 2015? If you were, ouch... https://t.co/zShyg9egRw

— Nik Hewitt (@nikhewitt) March 19, 2019