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
Thank you, I was just going to ask for something like this.
TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age
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Weird coincidence, that's just what NASA just tweeted: https://imgur.com/a/cHES1
This screenshot of a NASA tweet is fake
Sure, I thought that was obvious.
In Chrome: right-click, inspect. Edit page source. Done. Less than two minutes, and you don't need to have a tech background to do it.
Never trust screenshots.
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#43The way I use Twitter is to download tweets to a local database, including images/videos/unshortened URL and then I view the data in my own UI from local DB. It circumvents the tweet/account removals done by users or Twitter. Also I can do any kind of search/data processing I want. I guess I'm not alone. You can't hide your data once they are made public. It's interesting what is possible once you start treating web…
How many petabytes does something like this take up?
The internet says there are about 500 million tweets per day. If we assume 500 bytes for storing each, this would be 250 Gigabytes per day.
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#44This 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.
is this consciously apologia for enslaving oneself to moral fashion, or do you hold this opinion unaware of the terrible consequences?
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Or use different tools that are built for it. Twitter is a public broadcast system, there is no privacy there.
Sure there is, you can publicly broadcast anonymous speech-- a cornerstone of free speech tradition.
Privacy != anonymity.
If you want your communications to be private, by definition you should not use a public broadcast system to do it. Twitter is also pseudo-anonymous at best.
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#46For 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
> deleted comments only remove the username and not the content
Source?
I just tried posting something and deleting it for myself. I don't even see '[deleted]' or anything in the thread. It's just gone completely. The permalink says "there doesn't seem to be anything here" (like it does for empty threads or subreddits). No mention of my username nor the content anywhere that I can find.
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#47Services 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.
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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.
The benefit is risk reduction, not absolutism. You make it hard for lazy people with a bone to pick to find your old Tweets. You also increase the ambiguity (was this screenshot faked?) and costs for someone trying to uncover old Tweets at scale.
Today’s lazy person is tomorrow’s AI task that’s trivial and universally applied. When publishing to the net, think of your future.
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#49This 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.
In the 1930’s, it became a crime (in a certain large country) to think that plants had genes that gave heritable traits.
Thousands of scientists, biologists, agricultural researchers and others were imprisioned or executed for disagreeing or previously having held the wrong view. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Sure, there a lot of evil and stupidity said on Twitter, and through human history. But not everyone who is punished for what they said was saying something wrong.
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Or use different tools that are built for it. Twitter is a public broadcast system, there is no privacy there.
Sure there is, you can publicly broadcast anonymous speech-- a cornerstone of free speech tradition.
How’s that? The tradition of free speech has been standing on a public square and announcing your views or attending a public meeting with officials to tell them how you feel about their policies. The concept of privacy itself is very young, and the idea of anonymous speech even younger. Can you point to some anonymous speech traditions in the US or elsewhere ?
Also, Twitter is not anonymous.