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[sleepychu]

Snapchat has all these problems and people still enjoy the ephemeral nature of them.

[creaghpatr → sleepychu]

Snapchat sends a notification to the sender when someone screenshots their content, will be interesting to see if Twitter does the same.

[ceejayoz → creaghpatr]

Twitter can't. Lots of people use third-party clients or the website, where detecting a screenshot simply isn't possible.

[ihuman → ceejayoz]

This feature might not be available in 3rd-party clients, like polls and cards.

[cirno → ihuman]

Worst case, take a photo of your screen with another phone. The harder it is to scrape the content, the more vulnerable the content posted there will be, which will make it that much more desirable a target to scrape.

[ceejayoz → ihuman]

If it's not on the website it'll be DOA.

[badfrog → ceejayoz]

Facebook usage is > 80% mobile, and they often don't bother adding features to the website. Do you have reason to believe that Twitter is different?

[RandallBrown → badfrog]

What features aren't available on the website that are available in the mobile app?

I've seen some news stuff that isn't I suppose, but not much actual functionality.

[felipeerias → ceejayoz]

It is possible to detect when that screenshot is subsequently shared within the platform. Twitter could prevent blocked users from sharing screenshots of tweets by the people who have blocked them, they just choose not to because eNgAgEmEnT.

[cronix → creaghpatr]

Only when using the native screen shot app, which you can use many on Android.

[jedberg → sleepychu]

Snapchat at least warns you that someone screenshotted it.

[ska → jedberg]

It's not like that can be enforced in general, there will always be ways to duplicate it without notifying.