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Interesting, will be interesting how they are received and utilised. Whilst they don't allow reshares, it is common for people to screenshot a tweet and share
by Zenst 7y ago
Interesting, will be interesting how they are received and utilised. Whilst they don't allow reshares, it is common for people to screenshot a tweet and share that screenshot - this won't prevent that and wonder how Twitter will police that.
Also wonder if they will allow customisable expiration (up to a point), say 36 hours etc. Or allow shorter duration posts, say an hour for spot promotions - which would be a great use for this.
- sleepychu 7y agoSnapchat has all these problems and people still enjoy the ephemeral nature of them.
- jedberg 7y agoSnapchat at least warns you that someone screenshotted it.
- ska 7y agoIt's not like that can be enforced in general, there will always be ways to duplicate it without notifying.
- creaghpatr 7y agoSnapchat sends a notification to the sender when someone screenshots their content, will be interesting to see if Twitter does the same.
- ceejayoz 7y agoTwitter can't. Lots of people use third-party clients or the website, where detecting a screenshot simply isn't possible.
- ihuman 7y agoThis feature might not be available in 3rd-party clients, like polls and cards.
- ceejayoz 7y agoIf it's not on the website it'll be DOA.
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- badfrog 7y agoFacebook usage is > 80% mobile, and they often don't bother adding features to the website. Do you have reason to believe that Twitter is different?
- RandallBrown 7y agoWhat features aren't available on the website that are available in the mobile app? I've seen some news stuff that isn't I suppose, but not much actual functionality.
- cirno 7y agoWorst case, take a photo of your screen with another phone. The harder it is to scrape the content, the more vulnerable the content posted there will be, which will make it that much more desirable a target to scrape.
- felipeerias 7y agoIt is possible to detect when that screenshot is subsequently shared within the platform. Twitter could prevent blocked users from sharing screenshots of tweets by the people who have blocked them, they just choose not to because eNgAgEmEnT.
- cronix 7y agoOnly when using the native screen shot app, which you can use many on Android.
- OedipusRex 7y agoYou cannot prevent that and it cannot be policed.
- Zenst 7y agoI concur about preventing, though T&C's could enable policing. Also a nice (c) notice would enable self-policing upon such infractions to some extent. But certainly it will not be a fluid process currently. Let's see if they update T&C's to accommodate that aspect.
- OedipusRex 7y agoT&Cs stop at Twitter's border.
- baddox 7y agoWhy would they want to police it? Surely Twitter is perfectly fine with you posting screenshots of things of interest (obviously within obscenity and legal restrictions).
- Jagat 7y agoBecause if users posting screenshots of fleets becomes a common thing, users would be averse to post fleets?
- baddox 7y agoI don't know. Twitter reposts of TikTok videos seems ubiquitous, but it seems like TikTok is still thriving. I don't think the primary reason people post a story rather than a permanent post is that they want to ensure the story only lasts for a day. At least for Instagram, I think it's more about keeping your main feed highly curated while still being able to hammer out tons of stories.
- luckylion 7y agoCopyrighting tweets? I love the idea as a demonstration of the absurd extent of copyright, but I'd expect virtually no tweets to be considered copyrightable.
- abnry 7y agoThe advantage is that the tweet still doesn't show up in search.
- cirno 7y agoGoogle has begun OCRing text inside screenshots to show up in search. I've seen it happen first hand.