Politicians’ Deleted Tweets Are No Longer Safe Thanks To Politwoops
The Internet was never a private place, particularly not for politicians but now they cant even delete their tweets. Its kind of sad really and one could feel bad for them, if this whole thing didnt promise to be entirely hilarious.
Sure, anyone can delete a tweet, its not like politicians delete key wont work anymore. And yes, anyone who moves fast enough can grab a screenshot before they get the tweet deleted thats nothing new. But the folks at Sunlight Foundation just created a handy little script that grabs only those tweets that politicians delete and posts them. Tee hee.
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Sunlight Foundations mission is to make government transparent and responsible by working to change the relationship between citizens and their government with Internet technology. Well, Politwoop certainly does that! It brings transparency to a whole new level.
Politiwoop:
http://politwoops.sunlightfoundation.com/
Sure, we all tweet things we dont mean to share, but now politicians have no way to hide them. Discover tweets that your politicians shared and then promptly deleted. And it not only lists the deleted tweets, it tells you when the tweet was deleted and how long the tweet was up before it was deleted.
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http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/politician-deleted-tweets_b23332
Wondrous places on the interwebs.