It’s unclear when the Sunlight Foundation will reboot Politwoops to preserve deleted tweets by US politicians and government officials. The service was banned from Twitter in August, reports Business Insider.
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“This agreement is great news for those who believe that the world needs more transparency”, said Arjan El Fassed, director of the OpenState foundation. Human rights groups have however argued that when it comes to politicians, they are an exclusion from the rule and as public figures should accept that their every word can be tracked. The Sunlight Foundation, which worked on the USA side of the service, said in a blog post that they will be working behind the scenes in the coming days and weeks to set Politwoops back up once again. Today Twitter announced it’s bringing Politwoops back.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took the stage at Twitter’s recent Flight conference in October to detail Twitter’s obligations to its developers, users and the people at large. The tool went dark earlier this year after Twitter removed Politwoops’ access to the API on June 3, stopping the ability to track deleted tweets. We have a responsibility to continue to empower organizations that bring more transparency to public dialogue, such as Politwoops. The decision was met with criticism from the Sunlight Foundation and The Open State Foundation, the nonprofit organizations behind Politwoops. And after the story of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release was complicated by allegations of desertion, Politwoops surfaced deleted tweets from a half-dozen elected officials welcoming him home.
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“In many parts of the world, Twitter is a central component of the public record….” But its official response drew backlash from the organizations and advocates that what politicians tweeted were a matter of public record and that there should be an exception made for those tools.
