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By the way, official users of the Twitter firehose are required to honor tweet deletes. So while it is certainly the case that some kinds of archives (based on
by greglindahl 9y ago
By the way, official users of the Twitter firehose are required to honor tweet deletes. So while it is certainly the case that some kinds of archives (based on scrapers or screenshots or whatever) will keep tweets forever, other kinds do not.
- goatsi 9y agoDoes twitter provide a stream of deleted tweets to tell them what to remove? Now that would be very interesting data to look at.
- greglindahl 9y agoThey apparently do, and indeed it would be far more interesting than the rest of the firehose! Especially for politicians and the like, it would label tweets with examining. Most would be typos, the rest could be gold.