Politwoops

Tracking politicians’ deleted tweets

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Tracking politicians’ deleted tweets

3 followers

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Launch tags:Web App•Politics•Social Network

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Product Hunt

Super clever and fun to browse but this goes against Twitter's terms. Have they reached out to you, @breyten?

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10yr ago

Politwoops

Maker

@rrhoover See this for more information : https://blog.twitter.com/2015/ho...

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10yr ago

Product Hunt

@breyten oooh! I completely missed this. Thanks for the correction.

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10yr ago

UXTest

I'm confused as to how this works, when Twitter shut down the Sunlight Foundation project in the US last year. Can anyone from the team explain?

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10yr ago

Politwoops

Maker

@michaelaleo Hi! We (Open State Foundation, my employer) and the Sunlight Foundation (together with AccessNow) reached an agreement with Twitter last week to allow politwoops to run (We were shut down also)

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10yr ago

UXTest

@breyten @michaelaleo That's excellent! So glad to hear it. If you guys need any design support, we're on board to help (I'm local and former WH).

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10yr ago

Wikibuy

Awesome - glad you guys are back! Have you considered sharing the deleted Tweets via images on your own Twitter feed? Or is this not allowable under the Twitter + Sunlight agreement?

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10yr ago

Politwoops

Maker

@sirfern We haven't really though about that yet. But we'll keep the website anyhow ;)

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10yr ago

Politwoops

Maker

Hi! Thanks for hunting this! I originally built this thing back in 2010 and still run all the non-US versions of Politwoops (The US version is run by the Sunlight Foundation, BTW)

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10yr ago

Hunter

@breyten awesome, looks like the foundation is gearing up for the US (re) launch here: http://sunlightfoundation.com/bl...

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10yr ago

Politwoops

Maker

@christiancooper We're talking to them. They're doing everything they can to get it back online as soon as possible

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10yr ago

Riddle

Love this. No doubt the arrogance of politicians will mean there will be lots of deleted tweets. Have to say that I agree with Richard Corbett's tweet above though. Would be fantastic to find a politician whose primary interest is their country rather than their political party. ;O)

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10yr ago

Hunter

@russwrites I bet the rate of late night deleted drunk tweets is high. I agree, deleted tweet equals "what I really think"

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10yr ago

Delphi

I think this will be a hit. Once it opens up to US politicians (currently only European elected officials), I'm sure we'll have a field day seeing everything Donald Trump has deleted. @mcuban, what does this mean for Xpire? Are my tweets not deleted, but merely just hidden on the surface?

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10yr ago

Cow Saga

@andrewmettinger I'll have a field day with what Hillary has deleted

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10yr ago

Eluna AI

Clever idea - should expand it to all celebrities! Implementing a leaderboard would also be interesting, as I'd love to see which politician is guilt of the most deleted tweets, monthly or all-time.

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10yr ago

Politwoops

Maker

@rpnickson Hi! I am working on these kind of things yeah. Not production ready yet though :-)

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10yr ago

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