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To what end? You already assume Twitter has a shorter lifespan than the internet. Are you going to be upset when Twitter dies, removing not just all the account
by TheCraiggers 7y ago
To what end? You already assume Twitter has a shorter lifespan than the internet. Are you going to be upset when Twitter dies, removing not just all the accounts of live people, but dead people as well?
Also, Twitter may disagree with you on its lifespan. I wouldn't, but I do believe that unless they do start archiving, it will reduce its lifespan, perhaps considerably.
- Laforet 7y agoThis is why I really don't like the recent trend of third party sites dynamically embedding tweets on their own page when a screenshot plus direct link could have sufficed. The internet has already lost a great deal of its past with many historical image hosts that went down or rogue (looking at you Photobucket). Why are people making the same mistake again? BTW Facebook have had the option to memorialize the profile of the deceased for a while. Things seems to have worked out fine for them.
- eru 7y agoWhy a screenshot? That would mess with screenreaders. Tweets are text, so quote them as text?
- syshum 7y agoWhy would is mess with Screen readers? the Alt tag has been a thing for a long time.
- vthriller 7y agoWhy then embed tweet as an image if you're going to copy its text anyway?
- ryanmercer 7y agoSo when twitter changes an API, or is down, and someone happens upon your page they can still see what you intended to include. Also if you're documenting something like John Smith said "Kill all Muppets, they're taking human jobs" and his publicist goes "John, you really need to delete that tweet" and he does, you can show a screenshot of it to prevent revisionist history.
- icebraining 7y agoWe're not talking about using the API, but whether to prefer copying the tweet as a screenshot+text or just the text.
- eru 7y agoYes. And you could even quote the page with all the twitter styling. Ie quote the HTML and CSS instead of just the tweet, if you really want that twitter look and feel.
- syshum 7y agoSame reason we use Archiving services
- notatoad 7y agodoesn't the default twitter embed include the original text of the tweet in the embed code, and then just dynamically load in the like/retweet counts and branding? at least that's the way it looks when they load on a ridiculously slow internet connection, i've never actually looked at the embed code.
- icebraining 7y agoYes, you're right. Of course, images and quoted tweets also get loaded dynamically, and the text may be hard to understand without those.
- donatj 7y agoThe number of links I come across from dead link shortening services is too damn high.
- dredmorbius 7y agoThe most frustrating case for me is Readability, whcih swapped out the original links to articles with its own link shortener, then went titsup.com Even migrating those to Pocket (which I hope doesn't do similarly, though it remains all but useless), I've got hundreds of link-shortened articles I need to track down, one by one.