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Why'd You Push That Button?

Why do you delete your tweets?

Why'd You Push That Button?

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Arts, Technology, Design

4.4683 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Why’d You Push That Button is back for season 3, and our first episode is a relatively serious one. Vox’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and I catch up on our summers and then dive into everyone’s favorite social media platform: Twitter. We need to discuss tweets. Are they worth deleting, or should we preserve our limited-character history? Who needs to worry about their tweets? What happens if a potential employer searches your Twitter? What will they find? Kaitlyn and Ashley reflect on their tweet history, and we take it to other users and experts. First, they talk to Max Read, an editor at New York Magazine, and then they chat with Brianna Wu, a woman who ran for Congress this year and was previously a target of Gamergate. Then they talk to Alison Green of the Ask A Manager website / book / podcast universe. (She is Ask A Manager!) And they wrap the show chatting with Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, which attempts to archive the web. It’s true: you could think you deleted a tweet only to discover someone else on the internet has already saved it for you. A truly spooky possibility in the spirit of Halloween. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm here for the interview. Ah, now, this would be the pre-pre-interview.

0:04.9

I'm sorry? You see, we need to make sure we have the right candidates to take part in the next stages.

0:09.3

Oh, how many stages? Well, there's the pre-interview, working chemistry, the actual interview,

0:14.1

and then of course the bleep test. For the part-time barista job? That's right, yeah. What a load of malarkey. Smarty keeps things simple,

0:22.3

like 80 gigabytes for 10 pounds a month with no annual price rises.

0:26.4

Less malarkey, more smarty.

0:28.5

Search Smarty Mobile.

0:30.9

Enjoy cracking deals at ASDA this Easter.

0:33.5

For a roast with the most,

0:34.8

try our mouth-watering whole lamb leg.

0:36.7

Name Best Easter lamb 2025 by the Good Housekeeping Institute.

0:40.4

Now roll back to half price.

0:42.2

Down from £12.36 per kilo to just £6.17.

0:46.1

And selected fresh veg now only 8p.

0:49.2

For more great offers, make Asda your one-hop Easter shop.

0:52.6

That's as to price.

0:53.9

Selected stores and lines of debt to availability.

0:55.9

Lamb Offer ends 20th of April.

0:57.3

Veg Offer ends 21st of April.

0:58.8

Excludes Zadzer Express.

1:00.3

So have you ever deleted your old tweets?

1:02.8

I delete tweets all the time.

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