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Wow, this article is particularly vacuous. Someone died, and someone twittered. Lets draw conclusions!

"Oh, Twitter - is there anything you can't do?"

One: This has nothing to do with forensics.

Two: I guess he deleted the tweets because they're very insensitive things to have said on the night someone died. A little like radio stations not playing "First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin" in the days after 9/11.

The irony is Twitter's a bad forensic tool. Because the messages have to be so short it doesn't allow people to make clear what they actually intended to say.

As any cop will tell you bad info is worse than no info at all (because it leads you to draw false conclusions)

This guy is just bad at twittering. He should have said, "LOL, just murdered two people!!" That conveys the entire message and fits into 140 characters with plenty of room to spare. He could have even added a reason and some "!!11!"s; "because THEY HATE ME!!!111!".

Twitter as a forensic tool