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

Twitter shuts down 30 sites dedicated to saving politicians' deleted tweets ( theverge.com )

submitted 2015-08-24T17:31 by FinnTheHuman

4 comments

un1ty 2015-08-25T17:02

Of course - only the NSA can have records of this sort. TPTB cannot have the common riff-raff having this sort of data.

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diggy 2015-08-25T00:10

I've never liked twitter. From far too early on in its existence it seemed the main focus was on being an advertising tool. It was never really about people, it's always been about selling you ideas, politicians and products.

Connotation intended.

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CredAndBercuses 2015-08-26T09:51

With the side effect of giving activists a nice way of signing up on a list, while not really spreading information anywhere.

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jerry 2015-08-24T22:22

Well thats how it works now bitch!!

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