March 29, 2024

Web and Technology News

Twitter rolls back change, restoring the text of deleted embedded tweets

Twitter quietly reversed a controversial decision the company implemented last week, restoring the text of since-deleted tweets embedded on external websites. The change was first spotted by Twitter user @RuinDig. IndieWeb developer Kevin Marks initially called attention to the change in a blog post, criticizing Twitter for “tampering with the public record” by intentionally hiding […]

Twitter is wiping embeds of deleted tweets from the web

The edit tweet button isn’t Twitter’s only new feature that can rewrite history. The company has apparently changed the way it handles embedded tweets that were deleted after the fact, littering webpages across the internet with holes. Previously, a deleted tweet embedded in a webpage would still display the text content of a tweet. Now […]