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This seems like a good way to make twitter even more toxic than it already is. If you're afraid of your tweets coming back to haunt you later on, maybe you shouldn't be tweeting those things.
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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.
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.
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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?
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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?
A while ago, I created a very simple set of Python scripts to accomplish precisely this, if you'd rather use something you actually control. Here: https://github.com/rinze/obliterate_tweets
the twitter community needs a service that deletes regrettable tweets, and anything that might one day cause a public relations nightmare
> anything that might one day cause a public relations nightmare That category includes everything. Your post about how you're crushing some pancakes today could be considered a celliac-phobic statement punishable under the Freedom from Oppression and Tyrannical Online Speech Act passed in 2040.
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.