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I wonder if those bots that preserve pmarca's tweets run afoul of twitter policy. Twitter previously shutdown a service that preserved tweets that were deleted by politicians.

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I think that if you have a verified account, you shouldn't be able to delete tweets. This would be a decent tradeoff for being recognized as a public figure, of which I think deletion of content runs afoul of.

I'm sorry but I don't agree. In my opinion, everyone on a platform should have equal rights, within their user class (user, staff, admin, etc)

Your comment contradicts itself since mods themselves have more power than regular users.

Life is never fair and people are never equal.

That's a tremendously bad idea - what happens if you post something e.g. wrongly accusing someone less famous of something?

Then you eat crow and post a retraction, which also can't be deleted.

The other alternative is to not have a verified account, then you can post whatever you want and then, ahem, delete it.

Twitter recently OK'd it again--Politwhoops. Unfortunately the group that runs it, the Sunlight Foundation, is itself in the process of shutting down.

What's that? Sunlight is shutting down?!

Sunlight Labs is shutting down. After trying and failing to recruit a compelling Executive Director, the Sunlight Foundation is investigating merging with some other nonprofit.

Here's the note from their board chair:

https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2016/09/20/statement-fro...

Labs is shutting down now, and the other aspects of Sunlight may or may not find a home in some other institutions.

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