[simonw]

"If you want to act as a repository for the public record, you better use your own system."

I deliberately chose Twitter's JavaScript because I inspected the design of how it worked and saw that they had deliberately built it in a way that would respect my preferences for how deletion should be handled.

They've changed that on me - without even announcing the change. This is a rug-pull.

Now I have to replace their code with my own implementation, and they've hurt my trust.

[tom_]

Ask for your money back.

[0des]

I normally hate comments like this but damn I laughed till I died when I read this. Take care tom

[tom_]

Comment made only 1/3 in jest. If you’re not paying, you can’t expect much.

[renewiltord]

Why should I? I demand payment in public opinion because I can. You needn’t care but Twitter will pay from those that do.

[arprocter]

You joke, but Twitter Blue exists

[chaps]

Why did you trust them from the beginning? Serious question.

[epeus]

We trusted them because they were committed to being part of the wider web, and as you can see from Ben Ward's tweet at the time, took that seriously.

[tofuahdude]

Naive at best, honestly. Twitter from their very beginning has screwed over developers who used their platform. So have many of the other companies in their cohort.

[BlueTemplar]

You mean like when they removed their public API in 2014 ?

[tofuahdude]

Good. I hope you've learned that you shouldn't trust large companies.