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Re:Fleets: A new way to join the conversation by tidepod12 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:04PM (#25127182)
I think it almost has to be that way, no? If it was available on the website or third party clients, it would be trivially easy for someone to write an app that archives everyone's "ephemeral" tweets and stores them permanently, defeating the entire purpose.

I mean, I foresee that happening anyway, but my guess is that this is an attempt to make it more difficult/less widespread.

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Re:Fleets: A new way to join the conversation by rakoo on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:19PM (#25127423)
Facebook and Instagram have stories on the web app, so it is possible to do
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Re:Fleets: A new way to join the conversation by tidepod12 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:31PM (#25128496)
But with Facebook and Instagram, the "ephemeral" nature of it seems to be a minor feature, not the main point of it (whereas with Fleets that is the main point), so they may care less if people do scrape the stories and archive them.
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