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I wonder if those bots that preserve pmarca's tweets run afoul of twitter policy. Twitter previously shutdown a service that preserved tweets that were deleted
by guelo 10y ago
I wonder if those bots that preserve pmarca's tweets run afoul of twitter policy. Twitter previously shutdown a service that preserved tweets that were deleted by politicians.
- thwarted 10y agoI think that if you have a verified account, you shouldn't be able to delete tweets. This would be a decent tradeoff for being recognized as a public figure, of which I think deletion of content runs afoul of.
- kkirsche 10y agoI'm sorry but I don't agree. In my opinion, everyone on a platform should have equal rights, within their user class (user, staff, admin, etc)
- angry-hacker 10y agoYour comment contradicts itself since mods themselves have more power than regular users. Life is never fair and people are never equal.
- pjc50 10y agoThat's a tremendously bad idea - what happens if you post something e.g. wrongly accusing someone less famous of something?
- thwarted 10y agoThen you eat crow and post a retraction, which also can't be deleted. The other alternative is to not have a verified account, then you can post whatever you want and then, ahem, delete it.
- snowwrestler 10y agoTwitter recently OK'd it again--Politwhoops. Unfortunately the group that runs it, the Sunlight Foundation, is itself in the process of shutting down.
- tamana 10y agoWhat's that? Sunlight is shutting down?!
- tptacek 10y agoSunlight Labs is shutting down. After trying and failing to recruit a compelling Executive Director, the Sunlight Foundation is investigating merging with some other nonprofit.
- snowwrestler 10y agoHere's the note from their board chair: https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2016/09/20/statement-from-sunlight-foundations-board-chairman/ https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2016/09/20/statement-fro... Labs is shutting down now, and the other aspects of Sunlight may or may not find a home in some other institutions.