Deleted Tweet archive PostGhost shut down after Twitter cease and desist
https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/09/deleted-tweet-archive-postghost-shut-down-after-twitter-cease-and-desist/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
PostGhost was a nascent website that archived the tweets of
the famous, rich, and important. The site got popular for
finding and storing the deleted Tweets of politicians and even
Lindsay Lohan who plead with the English PM to #remain. "We
created the website postghost.com to provide the public with a
more accurate history of public statements made by the most
influential public figures on Twitter. We believe PostGhost
provides a fairer and more transparent way of allowing
individuals to hold public figures accountable than
Politwoops, a website that Twitter has recently reauthorized
to publish certain deleted tweets," wrote the creators.
Twitter emailed the group threatening to shut down their API
access for the crime of displaying deleted Tweets. This crime,
which could be traced to European data deletion laws and/or a
desire to improve the general popularity of the evanescent
Tweet, is banned by Twitter's terms of service.
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I wonder what Twitter would do if there were broad, crowdsourced
preservation and related availability of deleted tweets collected by
scraping, rather than via their API per se.
--Lauren--
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