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Apparently, I'm the only one who likes the move. Two reasons: 1. I actually think services should store less about people. It's good that stuff gets removed fr
by WA 7y ago
Apparently, I'm the only one who likes the move. Two reasons:
1. I actually think services should store less about people. It's good that stuff gets removed from parts of the internet.
2. I fully understand the idea of archiving a part of history. But in a way, I treat the websites more like a shopping window and less like articles and artifacts of time: They will be rearranged, stuff is removed, new stuff is added. Nobody would argue that redecorating a shopping window somehow destroys culture or history. If that is important to someone: go ahead and take pictures of store fronts. Make an archive if you want. But don't expect the store owner to keep an accurate history of their shopping window.
After all, most websites are actually the fronts of shops that are open 24/7.
- WildGreenLeave 7y agoBut Twitter isn't a shop. If in 10 years Amazon goes bankrupt (or any other big shop) and it won't get archived, I don't really care. But Twitter has a lot of discussions or other information that may still be important. I think Twitter is more of a library than a shop and you wouldn't throw away books from a library either.
- WA 7y agoI think there are several perspectives on this: - For some, Twitter is a chat and chats usually are meant to be short-term with an expiration date. - Twitter is a store front, because it is used to promote services or products and only the stuff that got posted recently is relevant. Furthermore, some people auto-delete their older Tweets with tools for various reasons. I think it makes sense to archive Tweets of public figures, especially politicans to hold them accountable in a way or just for historic purposes. This can, should and is done by third party services. But this isn't the only way to see it.
- y4mi 7y ago> you wouldn't throw away books from a library either. While i wouldn't, the libraries do throw books away which aren't being borrowed.
- ilikehurdles 7y agoI haven't logged in to twitter in years. I'm not sure if it qualifies but I sure hope my account gets removed without me having to log in and do it myself.