after an infamous firestorm erupted over the sudden disappearance of all Facebook timeline posts cross-published from twitter, the two parties have joined forces to restore all such posts. in a statement to axios, facebook said that after complaints from users about the deletion of thousands of old posts spanning several years, it "restored previous content and it is now live on people's profiles".
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A recent update to 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 #txwx #plano https://t.co/sAOsbdBjVO
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the controversy seemingly erupted late last night when facebook appeared to have removed all timeline posts that were cross-posted from twitter. in reality, the posts were automatically deleted after Twitter had its Facebook app removed, rendered useless after the latter imposed several API restrictions on third-party developers in an apparent crackdown to prevent future data leaks of the scale of Cambridge Analytica.
