Wired:

Like many other prolific tweeters, my brother—the person who first introduced me to Twitter, who is the most devout Twitter user I know, and whose entire living is made running the social media accounts for a major media company—has joined the ranks of the tweet deleters.

In fact, over the past few months, many of the journalists I follow have casually mentioned that they have timers on their accounts set to delete their old tweets. “Why wouldn’t you delete them?“ tweeted one, in a tweet I can no longer find because it has since been deleted.

At first, I was aghast. If something happens on Twitter but then gets deleted, did it even happen? Deleting it is an affront to history! Isn’t Twitter a sacred record of our (checks notes) … inane thoughts and bad jokes? Oh wait, maybe I do get it.

For what it’s worth, I’ve set my Tweets to self-destruct after 31 days.

I used TweetDelete for this function. There’s no need for these things to live on.

Facebook, Instagram, I’m wiping you out next.