{"id":2604,"date":"2015-06-05T10:07:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T10:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openstate.mu.openstate.eu\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2015-12-02T10:49:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T10:49:25","slug":"twitter-kills-us-politwoops-but-still-up-and-running-in-30-other-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/2015\/06\/twitter-kills-us-politwoops-but-still-up-and-running-in-30-other-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter kills Politwoops US but still up and running in 30 other countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, the US version of Politwoops stopped being updated. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politwoops.nl\/countries\" target=\"_blank\">more than 30 versions of Politwoops<\/a> with deleted tweets by politicians in 30 other countries, run by Open State Foundation, are still up and running.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"politwoops\" src=\"http:\/\/openstate.mu.openstate.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/06\/politwoops-620x160.png\" width=\"620\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since 2010, Open State Foundation launched Politwoops in the Netherlands. Since then it has tracked tweets politicians delete from their Twitter accounts in over 30 countries, including Germany, the United Kingdom and since 2012 helped Sunlight Foundation launch Politwoops in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago,\u00a0the<a href=\"https:\/\/sunlightfoundation.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/04\/eulogy-for-politwoops\/\" target=\"_blank\"> US version run by Sunlight Foundation<\/a> stopped being updated. On June 3, Twitter informed Sunlight Foundation that access to Twitter API for their Politwoops site will not be restored. The <a href=\"http:\/\/politwoops.nl\/countries\" target=\"_blank\">more than\u00a030 versions of Politwoops<\/a> with deleted tweets by politicians in 30 other countries, run by Open State Foundation, are still up and running.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Politwoops, more than 30 countries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The list of countries where Politwoops is active includes Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, Portugal, Egypt, Estland, France, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, South Korea, Macedonia, Norway, Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and Switserland, Tunesia, Turkey and the Vatican. Politwoops also collects deleted tweets by members of the European Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>In most countries Politwoops follows elected members of national parliaments. In the Netherlands Politwoops also tracks elected members of municipal and regional councils.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tweets are part of parliamentary history<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Politwoops has been extensively used by journalists around the world. What elected politicians publicly say is a matter of public record and Twitter became an increasingly important part of how politicians communicate with the public.<\/p>\n<p>Arjan El Fassed, director of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/openstate.eu\">Open State Foundation<\/a>: \u2018Even when tweets are deleted, it\u2019s part of parliamentary history. These tweets were once\u00a0posted and later\u00a0deleted. What politicians say in public should be available to anyone. This is not about typos but it is\u00a0a\u00a0unique insight on how messages from elected politicians can change without notice.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Open State Foundation is monitoring developments in coordination with our partners, including Sunlight Foundation, journalists and other users. We will continuously engage with others to keep public messages from elections politicians visible.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, the US version of Politwoops stopped being updated. The more than 30 versions of Politwoops with deleted tweets by politicians in 30 other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/2015\/06\/twitter-kills-us-politwoops-but-still-up-and-running-in-30-other-countries\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-politwoops"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3752,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/3752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}