What happens when a tweet used in Storify is deleted?
Someone will undoubtedly already know, but I don't, and I'll find out soon. I've posted a tweet on Sunday 1 May 2011 at 7.50pm and will delete it tomorrow and monitor to see what happens.
- There should be a tweet below, which says "This is a test tweet that I'll delete tomorrow - just trying something out :)". Its URL is http://twitter.com/JoBrodie/status/64760728212611072 (which will soon stop working once I've deleted the tweet).I'm wondering if Storify pages are dynamically generated, recreating the page by pulling in all of the individual items that make it up (essentially a series of disparate, individual RSS feeds, one for each item). Or they may well be combined and captured into one page with a single URL.I'm expecting that, if it's the former, then deleting this tweet from Twitter will remove it (after some unknown period of time) from Storify. If it remains here in perpetuity then the second theory seems plausible - mind you there could well be some other reason that I've not thought of.
- For future saving of tweets I recommend Freezepage. You can freezepage a whole page of tweets from the person's timeline, for example - a nice example is a selection of tweets from Gillian McKeith when she made a bit of a twitter boo-boo last year.If you want to save an individual tweet look for its timestamp (eg 53 minutes ago or 5.15pm April 30th) and click on that; it will take you to a single page on which sits the tweet of interest.See also a blogpost I wrote on saving tweets etc Finding things that aren't there any more on the internet, and storing things that are.There's a similar Storify story I previously wrote on this sort of thing (I'm a librarian and therefore a bit obsessed with curating things).
How useful is Storify for trapping tweets old and new? - storify.comScience Information Officer, Diabetes UK & Public Engagement Co-ordinator, UCLIC, UCL. Views are my own etc. etc. :) Proof of principle more than anything really... OK Storify looks like a lot of fun. I need to have an excuse to make a story with it though ;-) http://storify.com I am wondering how feasible use of this tool might be as a means of collecting tweets, given that What The Hashtag has ceased to be, and that Twitter has changed its Terms of Service to make it harder for people ...- Edit: Tweet deleted at 15.20 on Monday 2 May 2011...
- Edit: 17:20 2 May 2011 - the tweet's still there which doesn't surprise as much as the updating timestamp. At the time of writing it says that it was posted to Twitter 21 hours ago (true) and when I deleted it earlier today it said 19 hours ago (also true, at the time). I'm a bit surprised that an absent tweet is still being counted, unless it simply recalculates from the known time at which the tweet was posted.
