Twitter will allow Politwoops to archive the tweets of politicians again

For those of you who aren’t familiar, Politwoops is a website that allows people to see all the stupid crap that politicians have said on Twitter, even if those tweets were deleted. It’s a brilliant service, and one that more people should be taking advantage of, but the problem is, the website isn’t able to archive deleted tweets anymore because Twitter doesn’t allow Politwoops to access it’s APIs. The company’s reasoning for this was understandable, but numerous organizations have rightly criticized it for the move, saying that transparency is more important than allowing politicians to remove posts. After months of discussions with relevant non-profit organizations, Twitter has finally decided to restore access to it’s APIs to Politwoops.