Miguel,
That's a pretty open ended question since it depends on the resource, and
what you want to do with the user visiting the deleted resource.

You could throw a 301 Redirect [1] and send them to a new page with relevant
material.

or

You could throw a 404 Not Found and explain that the page has been deleted.

Either of these options is acceptable. I would suggest leaving the links in
the tweets and use the opportunity to present other relevant material.
Deleting the tweets seems like overkill.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_301

Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:55 PM, shapper <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I am posting tweets on my twitter account. Each tweet has a link to my
> web site.
>
> If a resource on my web site is deleted what should I do?
>
> 1. Delete all the tweets (new and old) that point to that resource;
> 2. Create a page on my web site that says "the resource no longer
> exists" when someone tries to access it.
>
> What is the correct way?
>
> Some of Twitter functionality still confuses me a little bit.
>
> Thanks,
> Miguel
>

Reply via email to