{"id":15577,"date":"2022-02-21T15:27:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T15:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/21\/the-bug-that-caused-imessage-to-lose-some-twitter-link-characters-is-fixed\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T15:27:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T15:27:07","slug":"the-bug-that-caused-imessage-to-lose-some-twitter-link-characters-is-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/21\/the-bug-that-caused-imessage-to-lose-some-twitter-link-characters-is-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"The bug that caused iMessage to lose some Twitter link characters is fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you noticed that some characters were missing from Twitter previews in iMessage on Friday, good news \u2014 it’s fixed.<\/p>\n

I first began noticing that iMessage was missing the first and last character of Twitter<\/a> previews on Friday when my wife pointed it out. Since then it seems more and more people noticed the same problem.<\/p>\n

Whenever iMessage sends or received a URL it tries to build a preview of what the destination web page looks like. In the case of Twitter, we get a look at the content of the tweet as well as any images that are attached to it. Except on Friday, when always the first and often last characters were missing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The issue affected iMessage on all platforms including iPhone, iPad, and in the screenshot above, Mac. Those running all the latest versions of iOS 15<\/a> and macOS Monterey<\/a> were impacted and the issue appeared to be server-side, meaning no software update would be required to fix it.<\/p>\n

That seems to have been the case, with tweets sent since Saturday morning being sent, received, and previewed as normal \u2014 all characters intact. Thankfully, our global nightmare is over.<\/p>\n

It still isn’t clear what was going on or whose problem it was to fix, but whoever it was, they fixed it. Good news all around, thankfully.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n