Writing a scraper for this is trivial and it's not like you're going to get caught if you're just scraping a few big name people. I definitely think this would

Writing a scraper for this is trivial and it's not like you're going to get caught if you're just scraping a few big name people. I definitely think this would be a good idea for political candidates and such, who the public should really have this sort of information about... A quick script that could do this with a few people and store the info locally might be a good idea, then we'd take this out of the hands of Twitter. Maybe a little PyQt GUI that can sit in your tray and scrape twitter accounts or watch via their websocket API and notify you when a tweet is deleted.