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Twitter shutting down acquired service Quill with 4 day notice and no DM export

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Re: Twitter shutting down acquired service Quill with 4 day notice and no DM export

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Surely this would be illegal under the GDPR. Couldn't you just request a full data dump, and they'd have to provide it to you?

(Deleting it seems like it shouldn't excuse not providing it. If Google just deleted all my data when I asked to know what they knew on me, that would pretty clearly violate the point of that part of the law, so surely there'd be a protection)

Re: Twitter shutting down acquired service Quill with 4 day notice and no DM export

#32
post #15

Twitters cavalier attitude bleeds into everything from suspending accounts to overnight cutting APIs to developers. No surprise here. And new CEO seems worse than Jack Dorsey having banned accounts that cover Ghislaine Maxwell and Nancy Pelosi’s stock investments.

I don't think any CEO will be as good as Jack. He was the founder and had lots of control so he could at least steer Twitter towards some goal he had in mind. He wasn't trigger happy either. Now corporate interests will prevail and Twitter will likely get a lot worse than it is now.

Re: Twitter shutting down acquired service Quill with 4 day notice and no DM export

#33
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A contract’s a contract and if they agree to something, it’s enforceable. For example — it’s not uncommon when adopting a dog to sign a contract agreeing you will walk it N times a week, or never leave it unattended in public, etc.

Yeah but who would enforce a contract in such a case? The previous owners, working now at Twitter?

Does that actually work successfully though? My reason for my original post was that Whatsapp founders apparently used a clause to prevent Facebook from using its data maliciously, and we both know how it went down in the end.

Re: Twitter shutting down acquired service Quill with 4 day notice and no DM export

#34
post #5

Quill owners could prevent that while selling. I'm pretty sure they were aware that Twitter will/could do that. You can negotiate these things while selling.

> You can negotiate these things while selling. Can you do so in a legally-binding way? Surely if you are selling then they own the company, the staff, etc and can do whatever they want? To do otherwise would mean that you still retain ownership and control of the company, thus not legally "selling".

You absolutely can! As long as the clause doesn't violate another law, you can 100% put in a clause that says "You will continue you provide the service for 365 days from the date of purchase." Typically the rest of that clause would specify the penalty for the purchasing company, which could range from monetary penalties up to cancellation of the sale, which would immediately revert all assets the company owns to the original owners.

Re: Twitter shutting down acquired service Quill with 4 day notice and no DM export

#35
post #15

Twitters cavalier attitude bleeds into everything from suspending accounts to overnight cutting APIs to developers. No surprise here. And new CEO seems worse than Jack Dorsey having banned accounts that cover Ghislaine Maxwell and Nancy Pelosi’s stock investments.

I don't think any CEO will be as good as Jack. He was the founder and had lots of control so he could at least steer Twitter towards some goal he had in mind. He wasn't trigger happy either. Now corporate interests will prevail and Twitter will likely get a lot worse than it is now.

Try providing arguments instead of silently downvoting, maybe we can all learn something.

Re: Twitter shutting down acquired service Quill with 4 day notice and no DM export

#36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think any CEO will be as good as Jack. He was the founder and had lots of control so he could at least steer Twitter towards some goal he had in mind. He wasn't trigger happy either. Now corporate interests will prevail and Twitter will likely get a lot worse than it is now.

Try providing arguments instead of silently downvoting, maybe we can all learn something.

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