The only new feature that can rewrite history is the edit button. The company has apparently changed the way it handles embedded tweets that are deleted after the fact.
The text of a deleted tweet can still be seen in a webpage. There is a blank box now that the text is gone. Many developers and open web advocates are up in arms over the choice of hiding the text with Javascript in the altered webpages.
Kevin Marks slammed the change, likening it to tampering with the public record.
In a reply to Marks, Senior Product Manager Eleanor Harding said that she wanted better respect when people have chosen to remove their Tweets. The message will soon be displayed rather than leaving a completely blank box, which is what is happening right now, according to Harding.
Marks isn't the only one worried that the ahistorical approach to old tweets will damage the web.
Even though the quoted plain text is still there in the HTML, the quoted plain text is being retroactively hidden by Javascript.
The plain text would still remain even if an embedded one was deleted, but anyone writing on the web could have used a.sif file or just quoted the text, but had the confidence of knowing that if an embedded one was deleted, the plain text would still remain. The pact was broken by changing this behavior.
On Tuesday, it was announced that it would soon be testing the ability to change the text of a message. The company seems to be moving toward a philosophy that puts its users' intentions first, well above any concerns about archives. The feature's critics argue that it could make the platform more difficult to use, including harassment and misinformation.
People are likely to be split on the issue of whether or not to support the deletion of bits of the internet if it is a good move or an ominous step in the wrong direction. There is a tension between the ethos of the "right to be forgotten" movement and the desire to empower people to have certain kinds of content deleted from the internet.
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