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

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Post by slics »

mcculley wrote: post #207
PaulMest wrote: post #168

Facebook did not purposely remove the cross-posted tweets. Twitter removed their app from the Facebook platform which had this as an unfortunate result. Source: https://www.axios.com/how-cross-posted-tweets-disappeared-fr...

"Move Fast and Break Things" This is a great example of big tech companies not thinking about the consequences of their actions.

I guess that works or might have worked when Cybersecurity wasn’t as equally important as it is now. In addition, people are getting smarter and more aware of what happens on the “internet’s” these days. So that approach of allowing anyone accessing everyone information had to run its course and reach the end of line.

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Post by annabellish »

vageli wrote: post #42
bduerst wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with GMail? Google stopped mining it last year: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...

> What's wrong with GMail? > Google stopped mining it last year: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in... . Google stopped mining it for ads, but it's disingenuous to say they stopped mining, period [0]. How do you think those Gmail suggested replies are generated? [0]: https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-email...

How do you think Gmail writes the content out onto the page? Goodness gracious, they have to store it and process it!

I don't really see how running the contents through an quick reply generation function is different to running it through whatever function prepares the body for display, here. An implementation of that which involves wide-scale mining of email content is imaginable, but not necessary.

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Post by zaarn »

conradev wrote: post #164
dasil003 wrote: post #62

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I'm all in favor of restricting what companies do with our data, but mandating that they continue to host everything we post ad infinitum? That doesn't seem reasonable to me.

and this is exactly why Archiveteam has to exist: https://archiveteam.org They try to stay ahead of troves of data going dark so they can save them somewhere first.

I'm uprading my current storage capabilities so I can make a few backups of some sites as well (HN might be a good first test)

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Post by iagooar »

AdamTReineke wrote: post #6

Holy shit... Literally ten years of Facebook posts and people's comments on them just up and disappeared from my profile. How is that ok?

How can this be an issue? Since when you can claim anything posted on FB and expect it to stay online forever? It's a private company in an unregulated field, they can do whatever they want. They could decide to close shop any time if they wanted.

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msravi wrote: post #184
PaulMest wrote: post #168

Facebook did not purposely remove the cross-posted tweets. Twitter removed their app from the Facebook platform which had this as an unfortunate result. Source: https://www.axios.com/how-cross-posted-tweets-disappeared-fr...

> Twitter removed their app from the Facebook platform which had this as an unfortunate result. > TechCrunch also heard from a source with understanding of the situation that the deletion of the app took Facebook by surprise, as well as the fact that Twitter didn’t immediately tell them to restore the content These statements seem to indicate that Twitter was to blame for removing their app. However, from the axios l…

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Post by lugg »

B-Con wrote: post #199
msravi wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Twitter removed their app from the Facebook platform which had this as an unfortunate result. > TechCrunch also heard from a source with understanding of the situation that the deletion of the app took Facebook by surprise, as well as the fact that Twitter didn’t immediately tell them to restore the content These statements seem to indicate that Twitter was to blame for removing their app. However, from the axios l…

> They probably just ought to have spoken to each other. Twitter probably should have just done the dive to verify what deleting an app does. I would guess this is mentioned somewhere in the docs.

Facebook probably shouldn't be destructive by default..

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Post by lugg »

Milner08 wrote: post #195
curiousgal wrote: post #192

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I've always asked this question, who exactly are "They"?

They will almost certainly have assigned reps in the other company they can reach out to for things like this. They may be competitors but they're still active on the other platforms.

> almost certainly

Present situation leads me to believe otherwise..

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