[benevol]

This makes no sense. When governments go after their targets, they gather all they can as soon as they define them as targets.

Twitter, on the other hand, is known to be a massive censor, just like Youtube/Google.

[bobthepanda]

The Iran situation is in a lot of flux, so while that may be possible when being methodical about one person, it is less so if you are trying to rapidly detain hundreds or thousands per day.

[kjkjadksj]

They probably have a script that creates an archive of all social media posts. Not hard to do. As soon as you have a name to point it to you can run this sort of tool.