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Yeah, that's what it seems like could be happening. But I don't think thats acceptable at all. Twitter offers the ability to mark yourself as private, but doesn
by jacobbijani 17y ago
Yeah, that's what it seems like could be happening. But I don't think thats acceptable at all. Twitter offers the ability to mark yourself as private, but doesn't actually protect everything. The same goes for deleting -- you are given every indication its gone, but it stays in search (where people go to "find" thing, probably the place you want it gone from the most).
- lethain 17y agoTwitter search was originally another company which was purchased by twitter latter on. It recorded and indexed tweets without any magic sauce, but in a way that other developers could as well. Thus, even if search.twitter doesn't feature a given tweet, any arbitrary API user could have it, and there is no way for twitter to remove those. Thus perfection is out of reach, and even if they did delete results from search, it would be more of an act of appeasement than an actual technical solution.