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TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

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Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

#21
post #9

Services such as this cannot delete a tweet from other services or people who archive them or even just take a screenshot. You still have to assume that anything to post on Twitter will be public forever.

Very true. Once it's out there, content can't be deleted.

Can't see any type of benefit to these services, besides for those who wish to automate their tasks.

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

#22
post #18
post #9

Services such as this cannot delete a tweet from other services or people who archive them or even just take a screenshot. You still have to assume that anything to post on Twitter will be public forever.

I never trust any screenshot. Way too easy to fake.

Weird coincidence, that's just what NASA just tweeted:

https://imgur.com/a/cHES1

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

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post #22
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never trust any screenshot. Way too easy to fake.

Weird coincidence, that's just what NASA just tweeted: https://imgur.com/a/cHES1

Since they are an agency of the government, can one ask to get a tweet pulled out as a stamped and verified document?

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

#24
post #10
post #7

If you need privacy don't use taotfer or don't post stuff you will later regret.

If you need privacy then self censor? One of the core reasons for privacy is to prevent censorship in all forms.

Or use different tools that are built for it.

Twitter is a public broadcast system, there is no privacy there.

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

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post #22
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never trust any screenshot. Way too easy to fake.

Weird coincidence, that's just what NASA just tweeted: https://imgur.com/a/cHES1

This screenshot of a NASA tweet is fake

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

#26
post #9

Services such as this cannot delete a tweet from other services or people who archive them or even just take a screenshot. You still have to assume that anything to post on Twitter will be public forever.

As someone whose current Twitter account was created around 2013, only 1.9% of my 2248 tweets appear in Google thanks to archiving around once every 24 hours, that includes hits due to archiving by third party services. Meanwhile regular people can read my account without having to follow.

That's a 98.1% reduction in one big source of potential HR-related hiring showdowns.

There are plenty of benefits to a service like this

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

#27
post #26
post #9

Services such as this cannot delete a tweet from other services or people who archive them or even just take a screenshot. You still have to assume that anything to post on Twitter will be public forever.

As someone whose current Twitter account was created around 2013, only 1.9% of my 2248 tweets appear in Google thanks to archiving around once every 24 hours, that includes hits due to archiving by third party services. Meanwhile regular people can read my account without having to follow. That's a 98.1% reduction in one big source of potential HR-related hiring showdowns. There are plenty of benefits to a service li…

> There are plenty of benefits to a service like this

Are they greater than the benefits of simply never tweeting at all?

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

#29
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weird coincidence, that's just what NASA just tweeted: https://imgur.com/a/cHES1

This screenshot of a NASA tweet is fake

You know that because it is a recent tweet.

Now imagine someone deletes all their old tweets programmatically. Several people have screenshots of an "old" tweet as they allegedly saw and "saved". Who do you believe?

https://screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com/images/22ea282...

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

#30
For people who use Reddit, deleted comments only remove the username and not the content, making it trivial to trace back the original poster. If you delete posts/comments regularly use Shreddit which overwrites the content before deleting it making this trace back much more difficult.

https://github.com/x89/Shreddit

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