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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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Post by egfx »

GhostVII wrote: post #113
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?

It sounds like it wasn't intentional, as Facebook has said they are looking into it, rather than putting out a post explaining their reasoning behind it.

It was intentional and posted about here

https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/link-twitt...

and there was an HN story about this 19 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17721986

why is TechCrunch just picking up on this now?

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

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Post by jarfil »

mabbo wrote: post #54

The problem here is the dichotomy of "ownership" in social media platforms. Facebook (and others) know that giving you that feeling of ownership and customization keeps you coming back. The Twitter Avatar, the Facebook profile, the MySpace page. All those posts on your profile add to your collection, your customization. They let you control that little bit so that you feel like you own it in some way. Did you love th…

It's not like that.

All your content is still yours, and with the GDPR you can request a copy of it at any moment.

However, Facebook has no obligation to preserve copies of your posts, there is no provision in that respect in the TOS, so if you don't actively preserve your posts, that's your problem.

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

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Post by drewmol »

MBCook wrote: post #10
Alex3917 wrote: 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 t…

>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.

Active users? https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...

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

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Post by cma »

MBCook wrote: post #17
JoshTriplett wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> No, it’s the equivalent of get hub deciding to remove all the code that you automatically re-post from SourceForge. People do regularly mirror repositories to github, and there'd be serious problems if github prevented that or somehow tried to force you to have your github repository as the "canonical" home of your project.

Honestly it’s not a great analogy because GitHub and SourceForge exist to promote cooperation and open code. That’s not really what Facebook is for, it’s not supposed to be ANOTHER place to find your tweets. I’m trying to come up with a better analogy but I’m not doing very good.

Actually "Platform" was a core pillar of the hoodie:

http://v3.designforfun.com/images/portfolio/client/2009/face...

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

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Post by zaroth »

jefftk wrote: post #82
joe_the_user wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd assume posts made with the API would exist still on Twitter.

The fb discussion threads those posts initiated are gone, though. If this happened to me I'd be extremely upset: I've had many very good discussions on Facebook that it would hurt to lose.

I assume you haven’t downloaded a copy for yourself yet?

I would not assume Facebook has any duty to maintain historical posts. That would be up to the TOS.

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

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Post by dewey »

Alex3917 wrote: 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 guess it’s not that big of a deal as there’s basically no interaction on past posts and not many people scroll down to see olds posts.

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

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Post by jarfil »

xeromal wrote: post #158
dymk wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is this "Just move off the grid and live off the land" response so popular on HN?

Not to mention your self-hosted BS will be considered spam by nearly every major provider

Not if you set your DKIM/SPF/DMARC/etc. correctly.

If you can't be bothered, just use a provider who will set it for you... like Google.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

mb_72 wrote: post #83
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?

Hopefully it's just a 'soft' delete, and this can be undone. I can't imagine FB actually hard-deleting any information that might help them in terms of ads etc.

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

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Post by paradite »

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...

The title has been changed to "Twitter’s deletion of its Facebook app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear" on techcrunch.

The Hacker News title should be updated as well.

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