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		danso on Aug 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored pol... Yes, but a couple of problems: 1) It is also against TOS to store tweets beyond a reasonable length of time. 2) Without the use of the streaming API, you do not have an efficient, automated way to track which tweets have been deleted.

jackmaney on Aug 24, 2015 | [–]

1. Tweets wouldn't be stored. Screenshots of tweets would be stored.

2. Admittedly, that would be the most inconvenient part of the process. This would require regular scraping to validate what's been deleted and what hasn't.

ConfuciusSay on Aug 24, 2015 | [–]

It's a violation of TOS for an individual to take a photograph of Twitter on their screen?

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