Be careful what you say – Twleted

Twitter has a delete button right. It lets you delete those random/drunk/nasty/misspelled tweets forever. But are they really really deleted? Well the answer is yes and no. When a tweet gets published, it gets sent to the twitter servers and the twitter search severs. When a tweet is deleted, it only gets deleted on the twitter severs.

So yep, you’ve guessed correctly that by comparing the tweets on the twitter vs twitter search database you can retrieve deleted tweets.

A very clever chap called Tom Scott figured all of this out and created Tweleted to let you have an easy way to retrieve those deleted tweets.

Gotta love drinking from the firehose.

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