[dbpokorny]

You have left out a very crucial fact which completely destroys your argument: Twitter has no verification process that the tweet was deleted because you're NOT ADVERTISING THE TWEETS. You're using them as source code. So the public is NOT privy to what you're doing with the tweets! So Twitter would have to get a search warrant to determine that you aren't deleting tweets! Of course they don't care; they care about what you're revealing to the public.

[MichaelBurge]

Twitter doesn't need a search warrant to query their own servers.

[dbpokorny]

Your computer has to download the tweet before it runs the tweet. It will be cached on your computer. Compliance with twitter TOS means you have to clear your cache when twitter says the tweet was deleted. Since you're using the tweet to run code, it doesn't hurt anything if you ignore the "deleted tweet" advisory.

[15155]

> Twitter would have to get a search warrant to determine that you aren't deleting tweets

Search warrants are incident to criminal activity in the United States of America. Twitter is a private company, not a law enforcement agency.

[jsprogrammer]

I put my code on Github. Twitter could monitor my repos if they wanted.

Writing a monitor for all of Github would even be possible.