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Well, then, it shouldn't be a problem to write a service that automates the capture of screenshots of tweets posted by a particular account or on a particular hashtag. That doesn't even require access to the Twitter API, or, for that matter, having a Twitter account.

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Yes, but a couple of problems:

1) It is also against TOS to store tweets beyond a reasonable length of time.

2) Without the use of the streaming API, you do not have an efficient, automated way to track which tweets have been deleted.

1. Tweets wouldn't be stored. Screenshots of tweets would be stored.

2. Admittedly, that would be the most inconvenient part of the process. This would require regular scraping to validate what's been deleted and what hasn't.

It's a violation of TOS for an individual to take a photograph of Twitter on their screen?

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