Threads' disappearing ghost posts may be searchable on Google

Be careful what you "ghost post" on Threads because it might actually live on forever.

It appears that at least some ghost posts — the new Threads feature Meta launched this week that automatically deletes posts after 24 hours — are being scraped by Google, making them searchable. While writing about the internet’s reaction to the feature, I tested this by plugging text from several screengrabbed ghost posts into Google Search. In multiple cases, I was able to find cached versions of those posts still appearing in search results.

Here’s a screenshot showing the text from Mark Zuckerberg’s own ghost post announcing the feature. Credit: Screenshot: Google

Here's another screenshot of a Google result for what appears to be a ghost post from the Threads account @hi.nixson . Cred