[saagarjha]

Ok, but then Twitter is just going to make that return a 404. How does this solve the problem?

[cxr]

The behavior of the object element is to use its child nodes as fallback content in the event that the resource cannot be loaded, similar to the the treatment of images' alt attributes for images that fail to load. This isn't to say that this protects against a determined adversary (who might then chose not to return HTTP 404/410 and instead HTTP 200), but the mechanism is there.

[jdrc]

why would they?

[saagarjha]

Because you're requesting a resource from them, and they consider that resource to be deleted?

[jdrc]

i was responding re/ security and privacy. showing that the tweet is deleted would be expected behavior

[0des]

Are you asking or telling, I'm prepared to answer if asking.