Deleted celeb-Tweets make great fodder for stories for mainstream media. The spontaneous format of the platform, makes it all too easy to tweet-in-haste, and then subsequently delete.

Here’s an example of the genre spotted by The Guardian by cricket star Kevin Pietersen after he was dropped from the England squad today.

TweetMeme developer Chris Alexander suggested that the process of spotting deleted tweets could be industrialised by storing tweets for a few hours and then comparing them against messages that are subsequently flagged as deleted. But that would break Twitter’s terms and condition according to Alexander.

Spoil sports.