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Happy Friday and welcome to the week's review of Politwoops, Sunlight's project to archive deleted tweets from U.S. politicians.
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Continue readingThe Week on Politwoops: a New Years parade, campaign team snark and dozens of new accounts
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Continue readingPolitwoops 2013: the year’s top politicians and their best deletions from Twitter
As the year winds down and Washington retreats to spend the holidays with family and friends, let's look back at the many gifts politicians left for Politwoops in 2013 as they deleted messages once shared eagerly with their followers.
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