Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages

Re:Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages by daveFNbuck on Friday February 15, 2019 @08:19PM (#19176354)

I find Twitter DMs to be very much like a chat. It has the UI of a chat app and messages are stored on a centralized service. What makes it obviously a different model and more like email or mail?

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Re:Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages by fireattack on Saturday February 16, 2019 @12:14AM (#19177203)

It is indeed arguable what it looks like, but even within chat/IM applications, there is no consensus or convention on should the message be retractable or not. People shouldn't expect one or the other.

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Re:Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages by daveFNbuck on Saturday February 16, 2019 @02:50AM (#19177606)

I wasn't making an argument either way about retracting messages. I was just surprised that someone would think that the DMs are obviously like e-mail when the UI looks like FB Messenger or Hangouts and message storage and transmission is controlled by a single company. I'm still curious to know how it's like e-mail.

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