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Wow, this is happening on December 11th? That seems rather abrupt. Why not freeze and hide the accounts instead of deleting? I.e. don't push any tweets to them
by symplee 7y ago
Wow, this is happening on December 11th? That seems rather abrupt.
Why not freeze and hide the accounts instead of deleting? I.e. don't push any tweets to them, or anything else computationally intensive. Then when they log in again, have them click a button to "catch up." Probably not as profitable as annoying a lot of surprised users who try and log in after Dec 12...
- ummonk 7y agoI imagine the goal is to free up handles for new users.
- siftrics 7y agoThe article explicitly states the goal, which is not to free up handles: "The site said it [the upcoming deletions] was because users who do not log-in were unable to agree to its updated privacy policies." Although, to your credit, the handles will indeed become available: "...previously unavailable usernames will start coming up for grabs after the 11 December cut-off - though Twitter said it would be a gradual process, beginning with users outside of the US."
- cyborgx7 7y agoThe evidence suggests that the suspect committed the crime. Oh nevermind, the suspect explicitly stated he did not commit the crime. I don't even think freeing up usernames is necessarily a bad thing, but trusting the stated motivation of big companies for their actions seems awfully naive.
- syshum 7y ago>>Wow, this is happening on December 11th? That seems rather abrupt. Just in time for Christmas, image wanting to look back over your deceased father tweets on the holiday only to discover Twitter black-holed them for you... it never cease to amaze how incompetent management is at Large corporations, it seems the bigger a company gets more incompetent is management becomes
- t-writescode 7y agoIt’s good that they’re giving notice so you can download them. It is not Twitter’s responsibility to archive for all eternity.
- shard972 7y agoThe only thing twitter does is store and retrieve tweets. Giving 1 month notice before deleting a large set of them seems to be a short.
- hnarn 7y agoYou're missing the point.
- syshum 7y agoI always love comments like this. At no point did I say they have a responsibility to archive them for all eternity. Further giving people 2 weeks of notice over a heavy holiday period were most people are consumed with other activities is not "giving notice" Further still it is just bad optics, PR is not about legal responsibility, not about technically being right, it is about how it looks to normal everyday people. Moves this like look bad to normal everyday people. It is moronic to pull a move like this over the year end holidays. They have chosen this because they think it will fly under the radar, that they can do it while everyone is busy with other things. I have a feeling this is going to back fire on them spectacularly Which is great because personally I think twitter is a net negative for society and its collapse will be good for humanity
- jijji 7y agoThe fact that twitter has a size limit of 280 bytes (used to be 140 bytes), they are probably trying to free up some inodes to save some disk space, as greedy as it sounds.
- eru 7y agoWhy would they store each tweet as one file on an inode limited file system?
- jijji 7y agoit was sarcasm, but anyone who takes twitter seriously should have their head checked
- eru 7y agoOh, ok. Storing each tweet as one file might even make sense. But you need to pick a filesystem that supports that use case at scale, if you are twitter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir is a good example of how this can make sense---at least at a small local scale.
- hendi_ 7y agoThey neither store each tweet in a single file, nor is is 140 bytes but 140 characters (think ASCII vs UTF-8)
- raverbashing 7y agoAlso pictures/videos attached to the tweet
- jijji 7y agoit was sarcasm, and it was never implied that each tweet was stored as a single inode.