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Re:Goodbye, Fleets by theshrike79 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:44PM (#27836755)
This is why I purge my old tweets automatically.

Nothing good has ever come from someone digging up old edgy tweets.

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Re:Goodbye, Fleets by berniemadoff69 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:25PM (#27837289)
archive.org scoops up all kinds of tweets - deleting them isn't really a safe way to get rid of it, just fyi
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Re:Goodbye, Fleets by theshrike79 on Thursday July 15, 2021 @04:36AM (#27842582)
Deleting edgy stuff at least gives plausible deniability.

"I don't think like that any more, that's why I deleted the tweet" is a good defence IMO.

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Re:Goodbye, Fleets by thereare5lights on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:55PM (#27837658)
Do those archive let you search for tweets?
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Re:Goodbye, Fleets by berniemadoff69 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @06:09PM (#27839055)
sort of - if you search the wayback machine for something like http://twitter.com/username/* - it will list all the tweets it has - and then a user can download everything and search locally. so, it's not as simple as searching by keyword, but it might be something to be aware about, if you are concerned for that kind of thing
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