[ChrisArchitect]

Don't like the "Twitter Edits You" title of the article. Sensationalist/misleading.

Tweet embeds are a live link to the Twitter system to show a tweet. To show the actual tweet from the Twitter platform. If the tweet doesn't exist, there's nothing to show. No one said it should maintain some kind of 'copy' of old data on your site.

[epeus]

You're wrong. The tweet embeds decorate a blockquote of the tweet - read the article. The now code removes that blockquote from the DOM.

[ChrisArchitect]

Apologies I understand more clearly that it is rewriting/overwriting the blockquote now. But that is the javascript hiding the blockquote, it's not "gone". It's still in the html, still visible to scanners and bots (and those with no javascript and perhaps also screenreaders for the a11y folks). Javascript/CSS hides alllll kinds of stuff on the web alllll the time to make pages look/format a certain way.

They're not entirely right, but they're not wrong either. You're running their javascript to power the embed, and so they gave the response "respecting user's deletion".