Don't Tweets Each Have an Expiration-Date?
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
January 25, 2013 11:57pm CST
A lot of the kinds of things we are tweeting (on Twitter.com) are often not the kinds of things you want 'recorded for your posterity (your nieces, nephews, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren etc.)'
(That--I think--is the reason why Internet-writing is not as respected as real-life publications ... because the real-life publications require investment, so the words better be worth keeping; whereas the Internet is just 'talk' written down.)
But does Twitter keep those words written down 'forever' (until the Tweeter deletes them), or is there a shelf-life after which they are deleted automatically?
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3 responses
@natliegleb (5175)
• India
27 Jan 13
i hate to tweet nowadays since their is a lifetime on each tweet and it is quite sad ideally because it cant be kept forever or there is only limited scope
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
27 Jan 13
So there is an expiration-date? How long is it?
@LouieWpHs04 (4555)
• United States
9 Mar 13
There should be a shelf-life. There sure is a lot of spam on Twitter! However as others have said, they last forever until they're purged by the user or the account is shut down
@Guit08 (597)
• United States
27 Jan 13
Tweets, just like Facebook posts -- or pretty much anything else on the Internet -- are around forever. That is the thing that most people don't think about; Internet users will just go around posting and saying whatever they want, without thinking about the later consequences or what people down the road might think.
It sure is weird to think that your children or grandchildren will be able to see everything you've done in your life via Facebook or Twitter!
