{"id":942,"date":"2018-08-30T17:51:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T10:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.adeptasiaconsulting.com\/?p=942"},"modified":"2018-08-31T10:13:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T03:13:56","slug":"facebook-has-removed-all-cross-posted-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.adeptasiaconsulting.com\/facebook-has-removed-all-cross-posted-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook has removed all cross-posted tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Facebook users are complaining the company has removed the cross-posted tweets they had published to their profiles as Facebook updates. The posts\u2019 removal took place following the recent API change that prevented<\/a>\u00a0Twitter users from continuing to automatically publish their tweets to Facebook. According to the affected parties, both the Facebook posts themselves, as well as the conversation around those posts that had taken place directly on Facebook, are now gone. Reached for comment, Facebook says it\u2019s aware of the issue and is looking into it.<\/p>\n

TechCrunch was alerted to the problem by a reader, Lawrence Miller<\/a>, who couldn\u2019t find any information about the issue in Facebook\u2019s Help Center. We\u2019ve since confirmed the issue ourselves with several affected parties and confirmed it with Facebook.<\/p>\n

Given the real-time nature of social media \u2014 and how difficult it is to pull up old posts \u2014 it\u2019s possible that many of the impacted Facebook users have yet to realize their old posts have been removed.<\/p>\n

In fact, we only found a handful of public complaints about the deletions, so far.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/p>\n

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@facebook<\/a> I used the Twitter for Facebook app for years, and I realize it’s not working and isn’t going to. But I just discovered all the Facebook updates it put have been deleted and dissappeared from my timeline! Is there a way to retrieve this?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Omer Lev (@omerlev) August 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A recent update to the Facebook Platform Policies ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to our Facebook profile or page and all of our previous Twitter posts were deleted by Facebook. #dfwwx<\/a> #txwx<\/a> #plano<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/sAOsbdBjVO<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Plano, Texas Weather (@PlanoWX) August 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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My post on Facebook via Twitter was deleted.
\nWhy?
\nCan someone explain it? #twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Tarin (@lestarindah499) August 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Above: selected complaints from Twitter about the data loss<\/em><\/p>\n

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Above: a comment on TechCrunch following our post on the API changes\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Some of those who were impacted were very light Facebook users and had heavily relied on the cross-posting to keep their Facebook accounts active. As a result of the mass removals, their Facebook profiles are now fairly empty.<\/p>\n

TechCrunch editor Matthew Panzarino is one of those here who was impacted. He points out that the ability to share tweets to Facebook was a useful way to reach people who weren\u2019t on Twitter in order to continue a discussion with a different audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had tweet cross-posting turned on for years, from the early days of it even existing. This just removed thousands of posts from my Facebook silently, with no warning,\u201d Matthew told me. \u201cEven though the posts didn\u2019t originate on Facebook, I often had ongoing conversations about the posts once my Facebook friends (and audience) saw them. Many of them would never see them on Twitter either because they don\u2019t follow me or they don\u2019t use it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s wild to have all of that context just vanish,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

As you may recall, Facebook earlier this month made a change to its API platform<\/a> to prevent third-party apps from publishing posts to Facebook as the logged-in user. The change was a part of Facebook\u2019s larger overhaul and lockdown of its API platform in the wake of the\u00a0Cambridge Analytica scandal,<\/a>\u00a0where as many\u00a0as 87 million Facebook users<\/a>\u00a0had their data improperly harvested and shared.<\/p>\n

Since then, Facebook has been trying to plug up the holes in its platform to prevent further data misuse. One of the changes it made was to stop third-parties from being able to post to Facebook as the logged-in user.<\/p>\n

For existing apps, like Twitter, that permission was revoked on August 1, 2018.<\/p>\n

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Above: Twitter\u2019s cross-posting feature, on the day it was disabled by the Facebook API change<\/em><\/p>\n

Before the API changes, Twitter users were able to visit the \u201cApps\u201d section from Twitter on the web, then authenticate with Facebook to have their tweets cross-posted to Facebook\u2019s social network. Once enabled, the tweets would appear on the user\u2019s page as a Facebook post they had published, and their friends could then like and comment on the post as any other.<\/p>\n

In theory, the API changes should only have prevented Twitter users from continuing to cross-post their tweets to Facebook automatically. It shouldn\u2019t<\/em> have also deleted the existing posts from Facebook users\u2019 profiles and business users\u2019 Facebook Pages.<\/p>\n

This is a breach of trust from a company that\u2019s in the process of trying to repair a broken trust with its users across a number of fronts, including data misuse. Regardless of whatever new policy is in effect around apps and how they can post to Facebook, no one would have ever expected that Facebook would actually remove their old posts without warning.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re hoping that the problem is a bug that Facebook can resolve, and not something that will result in permanent data loss.<\/p>\n

Facebook tells us while it doesn\u2019t have further information about the problem at this time, it should have more to share tonight or tomorrow about what\u2019s being done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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