copy paste the content of the tweet - meta data is lost (date and time, author, obv it is possible to copy paste the text and add links to original tweet and link to an author This would also conflict with the documentation and would be malicious. Twitter could start showing ads before and after all quoted tweets. There are lots of other malicious things Twitter could have the javascript do. Just because I didn't pay Twitter for the privilege of running their code and just because I embedded their code in my website does not make it okay for them to start distributing malware to modify my website to their liking. In a similar vein, any third party code could at any time do any number of malicious things.
While that is true to an extent, Twitter has provided documentation for this javascript that says that if the Tweet gets deleted, the javascript will simply stop styling your quote of the tweet that you have on your website.īy changing the behavior of the javascript, without even updating the documentation, Twitter has broken every rule of being a good distributor of third-party code. I see so many people here arguing that by embedding javascript directly from Twitter, you are accepting whatever they choose to make that javascript do.
It just took a couple of decades for businesses to realize that “free” has some severe hidden costs.Īnd appealing on social media hoping to get attention, in a world where there’s too much information and noise? Having to teach engineers that coding and behavioral contracts get broken, and so code must be written defensively in a world where pushing out features and adoption is “impact” is quite the uphill battle. I’m annoyed, dealing with like-minded individuals and engineers. You assume I’m defending Twitter, because you can’t imagine that I can agree that it’s a scummy move while also pointing out that it’s bad practice to rely on a company’s word.
While everyone is equal under codified law, we shouldn't forget some people have more influence than others over what gets codified.Ĭase and point of reputation. > I don't know what your intent was, but you come off as defending twitter on this as there was no written contract. If the service is very meaningful to you, then why wouldn’t you want a legal contract? But shouldn't we be striving for a world where it isn't a bad call? Reputation used to mean something,
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