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9-11GaveMe5G t1_j9vb41u wrote

> Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the platform has disabled the function we used to track deletions

Surely just a coincidence

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psychothumbs OP t1_j9vcwd8 wrote

The only question is whether he did got rid of it deliberately as part of his effort to crack down on anybody pushing back against the powerful, or if it just broke because he's burning the building down over there.

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stixyBW t1_j9xdmwp wrote

Elon over there ripping out load bearing services like his future bankruptcy case relies on it

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Smith6612 t1_j9xaitb wrote

Sure. Taking a play book from what tech companies have been doing the last several years in general, and having it with a coincidentally timed motive. The modern thing to do today is to take away all of the APIs. All of them! Useful third party application? Banned. Try to work around it? Account / IP ban. Want to archive the site contents? Banned. Want to view public posts first party or third party? Nope, need an account for that - banned if you do anything which steps out of line.

What are these companies trying to hide? This one is at least, fairly self explanatory.

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hamsterpotpies t1_j9wi088 wrote

Uhh..... You can just check the tweetid and see if it exists. What am i missing?

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couchmaster518 t1_j9wk9bm wrote

That doesn’t scale very well to the size of the platform; you’d need to remember every tweet forever, and check them all every day to see which ones were deleted

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hamsterpotpies t1_j9ywbe0 wrote

Nope. You get the differential of tweet IDs for every day and check every couple of days.

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brock_h t1_j9xobe1 wrote

Honestly take away the political figures in this discussion and this is much better for data privacy and right to forget. There's similar things for Reddit and frankly I think for an average person these things violate privacy in a way because they remove your right for Reddit to forget your data. I'm sure people would argue over this but the idea that we should archive everything everywhere all the time for everyone is not a comforting one to me personally. And while public figures are different usually there's no distinction made for these types of capabilities.

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