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Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

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Re: Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

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This is pretty crazy. For people whose job is social media, this is basically the equivalent of Github just arbitrarily deciding they're going to delete all of your startup's source code without telling anyone in advance, or like Google Docs just deciding to disappear all your spreadsheets.

With only a couple months until election season, Facebook is now literally editing politician's pages and deleting the campaign material they've created to communicate with the voters in their districts.

Re: Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

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Make your own website and you won’t have to worry about this. I’m mostly joking. Who makes their own websites anymore? Frustrating seeing users caught in the crossfire of policy updates for tech giants.

Isn’t this how the web was supposed to work?

Re: Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

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post #3

This is pretty crazy. For people whose job is social media, this is basically the equivalent of Github just arbitrarily deciding they're going to delete all of your startup's source code without telling anyone in advance, or like Google Docs just deciding to disappear all your spreadsheets. With only a couple months until election season, Facebook is now literally editing politician's pages and deleting the campaign…

I think it would be a very smart move to plan for all of those things to happen.

Re: Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear

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post #3

This is pretty crazy. For people whose job is social media, this is basically the equivalent of Github just arbitrarily deciding they're going to delete all of your startup's source code without telling anyone in advance, or like Google Docs just deciding to disappear all your spreadsheets. With only a couple months until election season, Facebook is now literally editing politician's pages and deleting the campaign…

No, it’s the equivalent of GitHub deciding to remove all the code that you automatically re-post from SourceForge.

In what way, AT ALL, was this this feature good for FACEBOOK?

It meant people could be “on” Facebook and “active” without ever actually logging in or using the app or engaging in any way.

Why would they want to just be a dumping ground for copies of another social network’s posts?

I guess I’m surprised this was allowed in the first place, or at least not removed many years ago.

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