#@kevinmarks@nick_clegg The ability to manipulate people by what you show them is what you sell to your real customers, the companies who advertise on Facebook. As @doctorow has pointed out this doesn't work that well, but you gather more and more personal information to pander to them. (twitter.com/_/status/1377263716325068802)
#[chrisaldrich]On the topic of Twitter respecting deleted tweets (or not) last night, a week ago I noticed an account, with a thread with lots of rich replies I was interested in, deleted itself a day or so later. (To be clear, the person deleted their entire account and not just the single tweet.)
#[chrisaldrich]I lost all the context of the original tweet, but in manually rebuilding the replies using search, I discovered that if I tried to embed some of the replies to the original, Twitter would return ALL of the data associated with the original tweet and the account which I would have expected to not exist in their system anymore.
#petermolnar> Pandemic-versary edition? - /me lets out a gigantic sigh
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#[scojjac][chrisaldrich] Interesting. I wouldn't really expect Twitter to remove anything from their system. 'It is much easier to mark something as deleted or invisible than to actually delete it' seems to be a Tech Bro Tenet.
#[tantek]Twitter has gone through a lot of rewrites and refactorings, sometimes improving things like that