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“so permanent” unlike, say, the screenshot someone takes of it?
by Kaibeezy 6y ago
“so permanent” unlike, say, the screenshot someone takes of it?
- bovermyer 6y agoYeah, this. Once something is publicly shared, it is permanently public, no matter what the platform tells you.
- Asraelite 6y agoI imagine it won't be long until some archiving service comes along for it, similar to Pushshift for Reddit. It'll be interesting to see how much effort Twitter puts into preventing scraping.
- ponker 6y agoA screenshot is not verifiable. You can take a screenshot of my Tweet but that is not proof that I tweeted it, unless it's captured and verified by a screenshotting service that has a solid reputation for integrity.
- mcintyre1994 6y agoI completely agree, but screenshots of Tweets are always floating around places like Reddit and even Twitter itself. Not enough people have been knowingly caught out for them to be immediately considered potentially fake yet I guess.
- onecommentman 6y agoIn an important sense, a screenshot is not deniable either. Nor a digital camera photo, or a Polaroid, or a photocopy... You could just make a phone call...
- samatman 6y agoRunning Inspect Element on a tweet to edit it into something funny, then taking a screenshot of the result, is a popular trope for humor on Twitter. There's some plausible deniability, in other words. That's enough for some cases, and not enough for others.
- hammock 6y agoOr the database twitter saves it in and uploads to five eyes.