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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.
Average tweet JSON object size is 5300B.
Should compress nicely though.
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
#72For 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
This is false for comments... it is true for posts however.
Also, reddit once said that they only keep the latest version of a comment in their database (not sure if it is still true though).... so if you want to really delete a comment from reddit, you have to edit it to some random text and then delete it.
Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age
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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?
That’s like making the argument for abstinence vs. birth control. Yes, the only 100% solution is not to ever post anything publicly. But there is still value in making things more private/less permanently persistent for the people who still choose to post.
Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age
#74I deleted all my tweets once but still have a count of 3 tweets. Where are these shadow tweets, and how do I eliminate them??
That’s probably some incrementor in a DB that has fallen out of sync. At high scale it’s inefficient to run SELECT COUNT(*) for things like activity counts, and under normal use, being within 5 of the actual count when people often accumulate 10,000+ of an activity is acceptable.
What could trigger the incrementor to resync?
Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age
#75This 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.
I think it could make it less toxic by allowing the long tail of users to delete things that may have come off-the-cuff, in a heated moment, or are simply cringeworthy when you look back on them.
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> 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.
It's been a while since I've checked so I may be wrong on this, but deleting your reddit account will remove the username while preserving the content. Deleting your comment without deleting your account will preserve both. Reddit internally saves post deletions but not post edits, so if you really want to delete something you should edit it to some nonsense before you delete it. Of course, the best way to protect yo…
> deleting your reddit account
Ah, that's something completely different.
Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age
#77Of course widespread use of this will mean tweets are less useful. You won't be able to find that book/movie that somebody talked about or their great analysis of some topic.
ie also on the front page today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16727319
which links to a series of tweets, the top comment in HN is:
"I'm the author and linking to my tweets is a bad idea because they auto-delete after 14 days."
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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?
The federal government has policies that govern retention of social media:
https://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2017/01/27/record...
> Bulletin 2014-02 informs agencies that content created on social media platforms, including Twitter, is likely to be a Federal record and must be managed appropriately. For records posted on third-party social media platforms, agencies must determine how best to manage the records for the appropriate retention period and capture them where appropriate. Some social media records may be temporary, with a transitory, short, or long-term retention. However, some dispositions may be permanent, requiring the records to be preserved until their eventual transfer to the National Archives.
Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age
#79I would like this to exist for Facebook, so I can clear everything except the current year.
Alas, it can't. Facebook doesn't let you delete things through the API.
Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age
#80Services 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.
By the way, official users of the Twitter firehose are required to honor tweet deletes. So while it is certainly the case that some kinds of archives (based on scrapers or screenshots or whatever) will keep tweets forever, other kinds do not.