[jzl]

I'd downvote this if I could. It was submitted by the author to boost views. This article had pretty much no useful content. He deleted his tweets because he didn't like them changing their terms of service a few times. No deep analysis of why, though. And ... um, data mining? Like that's breaking news, that public tweets and likes could be data mined? Ok ... yeah, moving on, nothing to see here folks.

[nickthemagicman]

It's adorable how the author thinks he deleted his tweets.

[Dylan16807]

It sure is easy to be condescending when you ignore chunks of the post. Like the link to http://twitter.dougbelshaw.com/

[nickthemagicman]

Do you think twitter deleted them from their database? Or just flagged them as not visible?

Id bet on the second one.

[Dylan16807]

It doesn't matter. In both scenarios it's off the twitter site and backups still exist.

[carlmr]

But can still be mined...