Politicians’ Deleted Tweets Are No Longer Safe Thanks To Politwoops
The Internet was never a private place, particularly not for politicians – but now they can’t even delete their tweets. It’s kind of sad really and one could feel bad for them, if this whole thing didn’t promise to be entirely hilarious.
Sure, anyone can delete a tweet, it’s not like politicians’ delete key won’t work anymore. And yes, anyone who moves fast enough can grab a screenshot before they get the tweet deleted – that’s 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 Foundation’s 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 don’t 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.
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Darrell Issa ( R )
RT @repjustinamash: This is a big win for #liberty & the #Constitution.
Darrell Issa
eat it Issa. 