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A comment on Twitter took down thousands of accounts that discouraged voting in midterms.

Re:Twitter took down thousands of accounts that discouraged ... by burtonator on Saturday November 03, 2018 @12:25PM (#18370996)
This is a GREAT reason why Twitter's policy that licensees need to DELETE posts that they delete is a horrible idea.

It prevents people from performing analysis on deleted tweets. This type of data is VERY VERY valuable for this purpose but their ToS requires you to delete a post from your index if the user deletes the post.

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Re:Twitter took down thousands of accounts that discouraged ... by prolikewh0a on Saturday November 03, 2018 @01:05PM (#18371245)
They don't want people to know they're deleting accounts of real people who are simply expressing dissent.
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Re:Twitter took down thousands of accounts that discouraged ... by ddingus on Saturday November 03, 2018 @01:55PM (#18371516)
That opinion is plausible.

Source: Personal knowledge of people expressing dissent who have had accounts removed on a variety of platforms, not just Twitter.

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