Praise for Sgt. Bergdahl tops deleted domestic tweets
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in an undated photo. (U.S. Army around AP)
The pitfalls of communicating in 140 characters or reduction came to life for many American politicians this year.
In all, a plan collected 682,980 tweets and held 19,195 deletions. Politwoops says usually 5,203 of those deletions were “approved†and screened out for typos, improper Twitter handles and passed links.
Politwoops pronounced a many important deleted tweets in 2014 were about Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was expelled in May by a Taliban after 5 years of captivity.
Six politicians deleted tweets about Bergdahl’s release
One deleted twitter from Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., read: “Welcome home, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. A beholden America interjection we for your service.â€
This was a “muffed punt of a domestic football,†as Politwoops said.
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