Twitter Reverses Stance On Archiving Politicians' Deleted Tweets
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/restoring-politwoops-twitter-flies-back-towards-public-interest_568543ece4b014efe0da49d4
Twitter reached an agreement on Thursday with two
transparency-focused organizations, Sunlight Foundation and the
Open State Foundation, that will allow them to resume publishing
the deleted tweets of politicians and government officials in
the new year. In August, Twitter cut off access to Politwoops,
a Sunlight Foundation initiative that published elected
officials' deleted tweets. The technology company said
Politwoops violated its developer agreement, which mandates that
services with access to Twitter's servers must not display
tweets that users have deleted.
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Twitter's original decision was inane. Glad to see them reverse course
on this. But we need to know the details of what Twitter will now
permit.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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