I set this up earlier, and of course it deleted my keybase twitter proof. Shame there's no option to exclude tweets matching certain patterns.
TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age
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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...
I don’t see that it would make any difference whether they systematically delete there tweets or not. You could still claim it’s missing due to being specifically deleted.
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> 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.
> That’s like making the argument for abstinence vs. birth control.
You must really like tweeting.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Since you can delete posts through most services, even not posting anything isn't 100%.
For instance: I notice that you deleted this tweet. Interesting choice of avatar by the way.
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#85A 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
This is what I'm using for the past year or so, running daily as a cronjob: https://gitlab.com/tombrossman/TwitterDeleteMost
You can whitelist specific tweets to keep, and set a threshold for favorites or retweets above which the tweets are preserved. For example, if you tweet something and ten people retweet it, the script will save it forever. If you tweet something that no one retweets or favorites, it's gone after 30 days. I call it a 'socially curated' feed, since old tweets are basically worthless to anyone but strangers wanting to profile you.
And props to Mike McQuaid over on GitHub for originally creating this tool, and for helping me adapt it to my use-case.
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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.
Another of the traditions of free speech is publishing under a pseudonym.
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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?
Probably done on a periodic basis, so, wait.
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#88I'm going to go ahead and plug a script I made to do something similar (if you were to put it on a cron job I suppose): https://github.com/landaire/detweet
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#89Of 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."
I've seldom seen any tweet carry information for longer than a few days. The combination of the messages being small, threads being hard to read, and tweets being hard to search makes them an atrociously bad medium to store information.
It's kinda like IRC discussions but almost worse. It's a shame because there's a lot of information stored in there... it's just not accessible.
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#90A 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
This is what I'm using for the past year or so, running daily as a cronjob: https://gitlab.com/tombrossman/TwitterDeleteMost You can whitelist specific tweets to keep, and set a threshold for favorites or retweets above which the tweets are preserved. For example, if you tweet something and ten people retweet it, the script will save it forever. If you tweet something that no one retweets or favorites, it's gone afte…
Awesome! I used Mike's original tool a few years back, got rid of a lot of my twitter. Probably time to do it again with your fork :)