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This is a GREAT reason why Twitter's policy that licensees need to DELETE posts that they delete is a horrible idea.

It prevents people from performing analysis on deleted tweets. This type of data is VERY VERY valuable for this purpose but their ToS requires you to delete a post from your index if the user deletes the post.

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They don't want people to know they're deleting accounts of real people who are simply expressing dissent.

That opinion is plausible.

Source: Personal knowledge of people expressing dissent who have had accounts removed on a variety of platforms, not just Twitter.

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