How Twitter Could Lose The Game By Design

Re:How Twitter Could Lose The Game By Design by novum on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @12:21AM (#810263)

I don't think it's quite accurate to call Twitter ephemeral, though. All kinds of third-party services are trying to index and archive as many tweets as possible, plus there's always the possibility that Twitter will cut a more formal deal with Google (or any other search engine).

Plus, there have been numerous documented instances where deleted tweets can still be found by Twitter's own search engine.

In short, the old rule of thumb still applies: if you don't want it archived and indexed and preserved forever, don't put it online in the first place.

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Re:How Twitter Could Lose The Game By Design by thwarted on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @04:12AM (#810498)

It's the _perception_ of ephemeral, through the UI and the way twitter presents "real-time" (most recent first, difficult to scroll through older stuff, less than stellar search (at least compared to other services)).

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