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To: fatima; grey_whiskers; Steven W.

Nearly every time someone posts a twitter link here and I go to check it out, it is gone.

So I am wondering if Twitter is scraping data from FR (or similar sites) in order to know what to delete.

I would suggest an experiment where when we post a twitter link, maybe don’t include the word twitter in it (make FReepers fill that in for themselves.). Maybe we could try using FReeQer instead. I don’t know if that would be enough to thwart the scraping algorithm, but it would be a good start.


1,745 posted on 04/14/2018 2:23:45 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: generally

If I can remember.I can see the one’s I posted in my feed.Last night I closed all the windows I had open on him.I think there were 8.I have learned a lot there most of it has been removed.I have decided not to post my findings as no-one else is.He says he is being watched.He puts things up and then takes them down.


1,752 posted on 04/14/2018 2:35:38 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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