Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politicians' deleted tweets

Re:Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politician... by nathancahill on Sunday August 23, 2015 @09:22PM (#10107435)

What? How would that be hard to determine? You need an API key to use the API.

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Re:Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politician... by cinquemb on Sunday August 23, 2015 @09:45PM (#10107482)

Here, have some api keys: https://github.com/search?l=php&p=4&q=access_token+access_to...

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Re:Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politician... by incepted on Monday August 24, 2015 @12:01AM (#10107852)

So what? How do you connect that API key to some anonymous web site that saves deleted tweets?

The only way I can think of is for Twitter to publish different deleted tweets to different API keys and then see which one the web site surfaces. Not very hard but not trivial either.

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Re:Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politician... by MichaelGG on Sunday August 23, 2015 @11:57PM (#10107842)

And how would Twitter know which API key somesitewithtweets.com is using? There are ways, but if the API key user is careful and doesn't allow arbitrary searches (so Twitter can't try searching #someguid and then kill that account) it'd be pretty hard for them to figure it out. They could try adding fake deleted tweets on a per-account basis, then seeing who publishes those. A simple two-account double check or manual intervention would prevent that from leaking info.

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