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Re:Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round by HappyTypist on Thursday May 26, 2016 @08:55PM (#11783092)
Do you mean indefinitely? Are they not deleted after a certain period of time?
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Re:Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round by azinman2 on Thursday May 26, 2016 @09:31PM (#11783246)
Effectively they are deleted just not how you might imagine -- I can't reveal more as I'm not supposed to know this ;)
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Re:Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round by askafriend on Friday May 27, 2016 @01:47AM (#11784139)
They probably just batch delete them from time to time but until then do a soft delete by setting "status 0" in the DB.

I imagine that's what they do.

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Re:Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round by feelix on Friday May 27, 2016 @02:08AM (#11784204)
>not how you might imagine

Then I imagine they're "deleted" off of their servers, but not before being copied to another database that they use internally which isn't attached to the original servers directly.

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