Twitter Restores Politwoops Access to Deleted Politicians' Tweets
Twitter said it's restoring Politwoops access to its application programming interface, resolving a more than four-month dispute with the Open State Foundation (OSF), which can begin again to publish deleted tweets by politicians (see 1508240020). OSF, the Sunlight Foundation and…
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Access Now met with Twitter several times over the past two months before reaching an agreement, OSF said in a Thursday news release. The groups met with the social media company, which also blogged the announcement, after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said at its annual developer conference in October that the company has a "responsibility to continue to empower organizations that bring more transparency to public dialogue, such as Politwoops." OSF Director Arjan El Fassed said the organization's "next step is now to continue and expand our work to enable the public to hold public officials accountable for their public statements." OSF plans to expand Politwoops beyond the 30-plus governments -- including the U.S., U.K. and Holy See -- that it now monitors.