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Re:TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are ol... by _wmd on Sunday April 01, 2018 @12:53PM (#16729221)
As someone whose current Twitter account was created around 2013, only 1.9% of my 2248 tweets appear in Google thanks to archiving around once every 24 hours, that includes hits due to archiving by third party services. Meanwhile regular people can read my account without having to follow.

That's a 98.1% reduction in one big source of potential HR-related hiring showdowns.

There are plenty of benefits to a service like this

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Re:TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are ol... by throwaway0255 on Sunday April 01, 2018 @12:58PM (#16729248)
> There are plenty of benefits to a service like this

Are they greater than the benefits of simply never tweeting at all?

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Re:TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are ol... by TheRealPomax on Sunday April 01, 2018 @01:26PM (#16729385)
Naturally. If you treat twitter as the service it started as (a microblogging service) then being able to share those short updates while they are relevant, and have them deleted once their applicability expires, keeps things nice and clean without having to give up a voice.
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Re:TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are ol... by kosei on Sunday April 01, 2018 @04:39PM (#16730318)
That’s like making the argument for abstinence vs. birth control. Yes, the only 100% solution is not to ever post anything publicly. But there is still value in making things more private/less permanently persistent for the people who still choose to post.
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Re:TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are ol... by reificator on Sunday April 01, 2018 @05:57PM (#16730714)
Since you can delete posts through most services, even not posting anything isn't 100%.

For instance: I notice that you deleted this tweet. Interesting choice of avatar by the way.

https://i.imgur.com/0R4Xn6O.png

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Re:TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are ol... by ribosometronome on Monday April 02, 2018 @12:09AM (#16732256)
>That’s like making the argument for abstinence vs. birth control.

This isn't birth control. This is going, "What? There's no way this could be my kid!" on Maury.

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Re:TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are ol... by cctt23 on Sunday April 01, 2018 @07:51PM (#16731243)
It’s probably unfair to compare one of many means of communication online with a singular activity burned into the fabric of our genetic ancestry for hundreds of millions of years. Or: it’s like saying you shouldn’t eat bacon, not that you shouldn’t eat at all.
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Re:TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are ol... by bootlooped on Sunday April 01, 2018 @01:26PM (#16729387)
It depends on the benefits the individual gets from still using Twitter.
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