Politiwoops, a network of sites dedicated to making sure that politicians' tweets are saved permanently, even the regrettable ones that they later delete, is coming back.
The Verge reports that Twitter announced today that it plans to help get Politiwoops going again sometime in the next few weeks. Pressure from rights groups and transparency advocates may have helped push the decision after Twitter was criticized for shutting down Politiwoops over the summer.
At the time of that decision, Twitter reportedly told the Open State Foundation that ran Politiwoops that Twitter didn't want to distinguish between politicians and regular users.
Twitter has since had a change of heart, though. In the announcement on Twitter's official blog the company included a statement from CEO Jack Dorsey:
