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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

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Post by jackewiehose »

slyall wrote: post #77

Of 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."

Linking to these tweets is already a bad idea because often tweets get deleted or the twitter website is just terrible.

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

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Post by sbarre »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #81

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.

Crap, I just set this up today, and realize that I just now did the same thing..

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

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Post by plexicle »

lucb1e wrote: post #76
Puer wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You're both half-right.

Comments that are deleted (either self-deleted, removed by a mod/admin, or deleted from account deletion) will disappear as long as no one replied to it. This behavior is the same, no matter how the comment gets deleted.

If the comment has at least one reply, then the username will become [deleted] (or [removed]), but the comment/content will remain.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

throwaway0255 wrote: post #83
kosei wrote: post #73

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

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Post by cctt23 »

kosei wrote: post #73
throwaway0255 wrote: post #27

Earlier 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.

It’s probably unfair to compare one of many means of communication online with a singular activity burned into the fabric of our genetic ancestry for hundreds of millions of years. Or: it’s like saying you shouldn’t eat bacon, not that you shouldn’t eat at all.

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

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Post by DoreenMichele »

notatoad wrote: post #28

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.

Or maybe you just read.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/how-trolls-locked-m...

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

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Post by DoreenMichele »

kaeluka wrote: post #22
choward wrote: post #18

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

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

Maybe they just want you to think it's a weird coincidence.

;)

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

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Post by harlanji »

I like this, been thinking similar. My current ideal solution is data retention cap, something reasonable like 7 years. Next people should have archiving tools and make use of fair use. This would give realistic view of what others may archive, help inform their online conduct. Screenshots are the best medium to archive tweets etc imo, captures as viewed.

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

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Post by kaeluka »

kzrdude wrote: post #23
kaeluka wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

No idea what rights you'd have in the US, I'm not a citizen :-)
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