2018-03-21: Cookies Are Why Your Archived Twitter Page Is Not in English

Fig. 1 - Barack Obama's Twitter page in Urdu The ODU WSDL lab has sporadically encountered archived Twitter pages for which the default HTML language setting was expected to be in English, but when retrieving the archived page its template appears in a foreign language. For example, the tweet content of Previous US President Barack Obama ’s archived Twitter page , shown in the image above, is in English, but the page template is in Urdu . You may notice that some of the information, such as, "followers", "following", "log in", etc. are not displayed in English but instead are displayed in Urdu. A similar observation was expressed by Justin Littman in " The vulnerability in the US digital registry, Twitter, and the Internet Archive ". According to Justin's post, the Internet Archive is aware of the bug and is in the process of fixing it. This problem may appear benign to the casual observer, but it has deep implications whe