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Twitter has been urging firms using their data streams to delete data that users have deleted since they implemented deletion.

Want to get cut off from Twitter? Don't delete posts marked as deleted.

This comes back to a previous point I've made: Twitter has a set of corporate morals, and isn't afraid to stick to them, even when there's a cost. I admire that trait.

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Ironically, over the last year or so a lot of journalists have taken to auto-deleting all their tweets after a short period to stop people digging their old tweets up. One presumes the author doesn't intend this archiving to apply to those tweets since that practice got almost universal support from other journalists, only to tweets that let journalists drag others through the mud.

I stay completely out of the realm of Twitter and haven't heard of any of this sort of thing short of the little spat with Tomi Lahren. Do you have any more noteworthy examples?

Is there a tool for that? In the current climate that's a really smart idea. Twitter seems to be full of people getting satisfaction from ruining other people's lifes.

Yep, there is. I think TweetDelete is the tool most people use for this. I'd link to their tweets about it, but...

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