Post APUfps1wMM637xdeKm by paco@infosec.exchange
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 (DIR) Post #APUccPMDM13iZZ0iSu by paco@infosec.exchange
       2022-11-11T04:22:19Z
       
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       Back in 2010 #twitter launched their “t.co” link shortened. And I thought at the time how profoundly terrible that is. If the database and/or ability to look up t.co links ever changed, we would literally lose information. We will no longer know what URL was tweeted. It burns a huge hunk of internet history to the ground if we lose that. It was vain and shortsighted and stupid. Now in 2022, I wonder how many months we have left when we can resolve those links. And what happens to collective internet history when they’re done?In another funny twist, what about trials or legal matters that hinge on the content of a tweet? And suddenly you can’t get the content of that tweet? Or where did that link point to?Nobody saw this coming except for all of us who saw this coming.
       
 (DIR) Post #APUfprH9AKfMmpkHOi by mark@me.mlan.im
       2022-11-11T12:06:54Z
       
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       @paco if a Twitter user downloads an archive of their data, the resulting files contain the original URL linked to the t.co URL. It’s not easy but it is possible
       
 (DIR) Post #APUfps1wMM637xdeKm by paco@infosec.exchange
       2022-11-11T12:13:20Z
       
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       @mark it’s not about me holding onto my stuff. It’s about the newspaper articles, blog posts, and so many other things referencing or embedding tweets that will suddenly be blank, broken, or somehow non-functional. That tweet probably provided important context.
       
 (DIR) Post #APUpYPvwZIlmbc9MZs by Bill_Boone@poa.st
       2022-11-11T14:04:18.979193Z
       
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       @paco What about the people who have no right to speak in the public square because Twitter banned them?
       
 (DIR) Post #APUphSK53QoqcdkXwm by connectionerror@poa.st
       2022-11-11T13:56:47.406331Z
       
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       @paco @paco back in 2022 this dumb faggot left one social media to join another just so he could bitch about the previous one.