hamsterpotpies t1_j9wi088 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 1:35 AM

Reply to comment by 9-11GaveMe5G in After a Decade of Tracking Politicians’ Deleted Tweets, Politwoops Is No More by psychothumbs

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

couchmaster518 t1_j9wk9bm wrote on February 25, 2023 at 1:53 AM

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

hamsterpotpies t1_j9ywbe0 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 4:14 PM

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

brock_h t1_j9xobe1 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 8:32 AM

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.