Politwoops preserves deleted tweets from US politicians
By Kimber Streams on May 30, 2012 04:25 pm
Not everyone thinks before they tweet, and US politicians are certainly no exception – enter Politwoops, a website set up by The Sunlight Foundation to archive deleted tweets from politicians. Politwoops scrapes the Twitter accounts of political figures, updating the site when tweets disappear. The website has a convenient search bar to sort through the over 3,000 deleted tweets already in its achieves, and also displays how long the tweet was public before the mistake was caught and corrected. For example, Florida Representative Jeff Miller's tweet was live on Twitter for nearly an hour before being deleted. The idea comes from similar sites in other countries wishing to keep an eye on what their politicians want to hide, ranging from typos and misinformation to major gaffes.
too much censorship in this country.........if the politician makes a mistake, oh well, aren't we all human..........he can clean up his own mess by explaining or apologizing.....it's why this country is in such bad shape, everything is so hush hush and all the so called 'important' people are protected..........
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too much censorship in this country.........if the politician makes a mistake, oh well, aren't we all human..........he can clean up his own mess by explaining or apologizing.....it's why this country is in such bad shape, everything is so hush hush and all the so called 'important' people are protected..........
technology what a wonderful thing
- kerryket
on May. 31, 2012 at 12:10 AM