Tweleted – Recover Deleted Tweets

I have just been listening to Tom Scott’s erudite and funny presentation (it had flashes of  Dave Goreman for me), on how he developed a Twitter tool called Tweleted. It exploits the different way that messages are deleted from using the application interface but not deleted from its search engine, Twitter search. A comparison between the two sets of results, removing the one are in both sets leaves only the deleted messages.

Tweleted in Good and Evil modes

The nefarious purposes of this would be great for anyone silly enough to say something out of turn and then delete it but these results are available on the twitter search engine, you just wouldn’t know they had been deleted. For fun, a bar at the top of the screen allows you to switch between normal and evil modes. It just hammers home the point, that you shouldn’t say anything on Twitter that you would not like to be in the public domain. If you suddenly feel the need to remove some your tweets from Twitter search urgently, then there is some advice on their support pages.