Twitter change leaves huge gaps in websites

The Verge ^ | Apr 6, 2022, 7:18am EDT | Jon Porter

[BenLurkin]

Twitter has made a small but significant change to how deleted tweets are shown when they’re embedded in third-party websites. Since at least the end of March the social media network has started showing a blank box on external sites when an embedded tweet has been deleted.

It’s a big change from how Twitter used to handle deleted-yet-embedded tweets, when it would preserve the original unformatted text. With this recent change, that text is now gone, leaving a hole inside any story that embedded it.

Twitter is using its embedded Javascript to blank out the tweets. To see the original text you can disable Javascript in your browser.

It’s odd, to say the least, that Twitter would make a change of this magnitude without some kind of warning.

News of Twitter’s changes to embedded deleted tweets has emerged just hours after the company officially announced it was working on an edit button for the service, allowing users to change the contents of tweets after they’ve been posted. The feature has prompted concerns that users will be able to edit statements that are an important matter of public record.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Don’t want any remnants of idiotic tweets by celebs and politicians.

[dayglored]

IMO anyone who depended on the alleged immutability of an old tweet is crazy. Do you really think Twitter itself (the staff) couldn't make edits to old tweets.

C'mon man!

"Matter of public record" my a$$. Tweets aren't worth the electrons they're displayed with.

[Drew68]

The feature has prompted concerns that users will be able to edit statements that are an important matter of public record.

I actually disagree with the edit button for this very reason. One thing that Facebook (and DU, of all places) do is allow you to read the original content of any post that has been edited.

Often I wish FR had an edit feature, mostly so I could fix typos, but it has a preview feature so, really, all typos are my own fault. Ultimately, the lack of an edit feature preserves the integrity of the forum.

I do think that we should be able to self-delete posts, as every other forum will allow you to do. However, the mods here have always been receptive whenever I've asked them to delete a post of mine for whatever reason.

[KarlInOhio]

From 1984: The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it. It also follows that though the past is alterable, it never has been altered in any specific instance. For when it has been recreated in whatever shape is needed at the moment, then this new version IS the past, and no different past can ever have existed.

[wiseprince]

Should read the contents of the tweet, throw it in your system and skin it like a tweet.

[AndyTheBear]

To see the original text you can disable Javascript in your browser.

Browsers kind of need Javascript working.

[Lisbon1940]

On here, you can sometimes find the text of a deleted post in the replies to it.

[InterceptPoint]

Don’t link. Snip the Tweet and save and use it as an image.

[yesthatjallen]

"I actually disagree with the edit button for this very reason."

It's a public record so there shouldn't be an edit button.

If they're going to use one, when a tweet is edited, it should include a notice saying it was edited with a time stamp of the original and when the tweet was altered.

[NetAddicted]

What I found interesting is there are sites that retain the deleted tweets. Bookmarking, so I can look them up later.

[wintertime]

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