A few days ago, I ran an experiment: a tweet that deletes itself. Every like the tweet gets, its lifetime increases by 60 seconds.

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The experiment

It survived for 20 hours 6 minutes 7 seconds. The graph below shows the amount time remaining chart since it’s created until its final breath.

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Click the tweet below to see the deleted tweet + its follow-up updates.

https://twitter.com/tdinh_me/status/1479322093397233664

Impact

In its entire lifetime, the tweet got:

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See its full public analytics and the archive of all replies here (under the Tweet Analytics tab):

https://blackmagic.so/self-destructing-tweet/

Conclusion

This experiment is interesting. Yep, that’s it.


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