Deletion as Expression and Archiving Political Gaffes on Social Media

After Twitter revoked API access for accounts archiving the Tweets of politicians, digital rights activists demanded the social network reinstate what they consider an important source of accountability.

Image and reputation management are important considerations on social media: From regular users who have been victims of a lack of context, to politicians wary of saying anything at all for fear of the public social record. Twitter recently revoked the API access many archiving sites that specialized in holding politicians accountable and digital activists aren’t too happy about it.

The decision to revoke access has impacted sites in 30 countries, including sites monitoring the European and British Parliaments.

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