Twitter Reverses Stance On Archiving Politicians’ Deleted Tweets

Twitter reached an agreement on Thursday with two transparency-focused organizations, Sunlight Foundation and the Open State Foundation, that will allow them to resume publishing the deleted tweets of politicians and government officials in the new year.

In August, Twitter cut off access to Politwoops, a Sunlight Foundation initiative that published elected officials' deleted tweets. The technology company said Politwoops violated its developer agreement, which mandates that services with access to Twitter's servers must not display tweets that users have deleted.