The change that made it difficult for people to preserve deleted messages was taken back. Kevin Marks pointed out on Wednesday that the company had recently changed its embedded javascript so that the text of deleted tweets was not visible on third-party websites.
After considering the feedback we heard, we're rolling back this change for now while we explore different options.
The company made a change to better respect people who decide to take their account down. The move was problematic because it left a blank space where the deleted message had previously been embedded. Additional messaging would be rolled out that would explain why a message was not visible.
Following its reversal, it was exploring different options. The decision to change how they work was strange for many. When it first introduced embedded, it said it wanted to keep the text of deleted messages. For many years afterwards, company executives, including former CEO Jack Dorsey, stressed the role of the platform as a kind of public record.
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