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If you know the id of a tweet you can still access it I believe. https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show.json?id=20 https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show.jso
by warp 15y ago
If you know the id of a tweet you can still access it I believe. https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show.json?id=20 https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show.json?id=20 still works, which allows you to construct https://twitter.com/#!/jack/status/20 https://twitter.com/#!/jack/status/20 which also still works. So, it's only searches which don't go that far back.
- saurik 15y agoRight. You can also find a lot of old tweets using Google (which is, of course, hit or miss). As I said, you (a general you of "people on HN", not just the person I responded to) and I know that it isn't deleted. You and I know all sorts of things about websites that the normal person does not, which means we honestly can (and do) come off as if we know deep hacker magic secrets for demonstrating what is, to us, rather obvious things. When we design websites (and privacy policies...) we need to remember this. Remember: for a normal person, those somewhat scary-looking URLs are likely opaque. To the extent that people spend any time pulling them apart, it turns into a game of "guess the really long number, by hand, typing attempts into the URL bar of their web browser". They are unlikely even to figure out that it is monotonically increasing (which may or may not even help given the volume of the site); and, even if they did, for them the probability of guessing one of those numbers would still be effectively zero.