Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by pmlnr on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:42PM (#18943824)

> Everything you post on the internet is forever

I wish it was. Anything on social media maybe, but the broader internet dies in ~10 years.

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Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by mlindner on Friday January 18, 2019 @07:20PM (#18944355)

A lot of my forum posts from 2004 are still around. Also web archive exists meaning that all those sites are being archived even if the site hosting that content disappears.

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Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by int_19h on Saturday January 19, 2019 @01:35AM (#18945667)

That's not the worst of it - some of my code is still around from circa 2000. It's kinda embarrassing to read now.

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Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by tyfon on Friday January 18, 2019 @08:16PM (#18944627)

When I search for my name I get Usenet posts from 1991 :)

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