But the old social network's accidental purge of 12 years' worth of its users' music uploads - that's an estimated 50 million songs - is probably a close second. In the case of Myspace, the loss of the uploads appears accidental. Google+ users were given 10 months to download and move their data ahead of the site's planned shutdown in April. Last month, in Flickr's most recent update, the photo storage site announced that any files uploaded beyond the 1,000-item threshold for free accounts risked deletion. The lost files had been uploaded from 2003 - the year of the company's birth - to 2015, representing more than 50 million songs by 14 million artists.

Source: Stuff March 19, 2019 18:22 UTC