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May 31, 2012 02:15 am GMT
Once something is on the Internet, it's typically pretty hard to delete it. Unless somebody retweets a posting to Twitter, though, a deleted tweet it is pretty much gone forever. With Politwoops, however, the Sunlight Foundation is now preserving these tweets for posterity. Politwoops follows all the 433 official Twitter accounts for members of Congress, as well as President Obama's and Mitt Romney's.As Tom Lee, the director of Sunlight Labs, noted in today's launch announcement, "in politics, Twitter is part of the ever-present spin room of the digital age. But unlike other mediums, the record of events can be edited; tweets deleted from twitter.com are hard or impossible to see after the fact."
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The Internet Never Forgets: Politwoops Saves The Tweets Your Politicians Tried To Delete
Once something is on the Internet, it's typically pretty hard to delete it. Unless somebody retweets a posting to Twitter, though, a deleted tweet it is pretty much gone forever. With Politwoops, however, the Sunlight Foundation is now preserving these tweets for posterity. Politwoops follows all the 433 official Twitter accounts for members of Congress, as well as President Obama's and Mitt Romney's.As Tom Lee, the director of Sunlight Labs, noted in today's launch announcement, "in politics, Twitter is part of the ever-present spin room of the digital age. But unlike other mediums, the record of events can be edited; tweets deleted from twitter.com are hard or impossible to see after the fact."Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/uR19_2PsWt0/
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