If deleting old tweets seems wise, then surely never tweeting in the first place must be wiser. Delete all you wish, but the number of entities independently ar

If deleting old tweets seems wise, then surely never tweeting in the first place must be wiser. Delete all you wish, but the number of entities independently archiving the Twitter firehose most be in the hundreds or thousands. I suspect we're all lucky that for most of human history we didn't keep such meticulous records on every single human's most banal comments and observations. Surely from Aristotle to Abraham Lincoln, a scouring of their lifelong Twitter feed would have revealed every one of them to have produced a despicable melange of racism, spite, narcissism, chauvinism, and Lord knows what other vile comments. It's rather silly that we're all encouraged to overshare and trumpet inanity into the social ether and at the same time we're going around firing people for regrettable jokes they made 8 years ago. Ah well, I'll stick to making safe and largely valueless comments on HN...