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Re:Twitter prepares for cull of inactive users by dylan604 on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:15PM (#21644958)
How does one prove a negative? A deleted tweet from 2006 where nobody has taken a screen shot. It's not an active account like POTUS with the entire world watching specifically for catching deletes. I'm seriously asking
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Re:Twitter prepares for cull of inactive users by echelon on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:21PM (#21644974)
Internet Archive. Account metrics. Cached search results. There are probably a number of potential ways.
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Re:Twitter prepares for cull of inactive users by kick on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @11:20PM (#21645217)
That doesn't seem like a big deal at all. They don't do blanket removals of tweets.
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