CENSORSHIP | Twitter shuts down 30 sites dedicated to saving politicians' deleted tweets

Great point and a great thread. +5

I find it's character limit...taxing. It tasks me...

Not build for pontificating windbags such as moi.

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Censor that shit!

As long as you didn't put it up on YouTube or anywhere else you would be fine.

Otherwise, Twitter could choose to sue you for copyright violation if you showed an image of the tweet.

It's also of limited utility to have saved copies of deleted tweets, or screen captures of tweets, since they can't be verified. How many faked or doctored images of tweets have we seen on GLP.

We just keep running up against the problem of Twitter being a private company in reality, which is also serving a public role by public officials as a method of communication.

Of course, Twitter hasn't taken anyone to court for violating their copyrighted material yet, it isn't even clear whether they would or not. It isn't necessary. By removing API access, people have to judge anyone's claimed copy of a deleted tweet based on the claimants credibility.

It's a free pass to politicians to shout whatever they want in "Town Square" and never be held accountable for it.

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Don't worry, Twitter won't be around much longer.
Have you seen their stock prices lately? Even before this stock market crash?

Data can be scraped from anywhere and aggregated and sorted. Then uploaded to TPB and other torrent sites. There's no way to stop a determined provider.

"That’s right. Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress."

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"In April 2010, the Library and Twitter signed an agreement providing the Library the public tweets from the company’s inception through the date of the agreement, an archive of tweets from 2006 through April 2010. Additionally, the Library and Twitter agreed that Twitter would provide all public tweets on an ongoing basis under the same terms."

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The Library and Twitter: An FAQ
April 28, 2010 by Matt Raymond
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What is in the Archive?

Twitter has been a public and open communications platform since its beginning. Twitter is donating an archive of what it determines to be public. Private account information and deleted tweets will not be part of the archive. Linked information such as pictures and websites is not part of the archive, and the Library has no plans to collect the linked sites. There will be at least a six-month window between the original date of a tweet and its date of availability for research use.
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Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress
January 4, 2013 by Erin Allen
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In April 2010, the Library and Twitter signed an agreement providing the Library the public tweets from the company’s inception through the date of the agreement, an archive of tweets from 2006 through April 2010. Additionally, the Library and Twitter agreed that Twitter would provide all public tweets on an ongoing basis under the same terms.

The Library’s first objectives were to acquire and preserve the 2006-10 archive; to establish a secure, sustainable process for receiving and preserving a daily, ongoing stream of tweets through the present day; and to create a structure for organizing the entire archive by date.

This month, all those objectives will be completed. We now have an archive of approximately 170 billion tweets and growing. The volume of tweets the Library receives each day has grown from 140 million beginning in February 2011 to nearly half a billion tweets each day as of October 2012.

The Library’s focus now is on addressing the significant technology challenges to making the archive accessible to researchers in a comprehensive, useful way. These efforts are ongoing and a priority for the Library.
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Although the Library has been building and stabilizing the archive and has not yet offered researchers access, we have nevertheless received approximately 400 inquiries from researchers all over the world.
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Still waiting, since Jan. 2013. As far as I can tell, they still haven't allowed researchers access.

Also, the fact deleted tweets aren't included keeps this from being a substitute for what the Open State Foundation offered.

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