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inkdroid-org-1712		Outgoing			.html	text/html	1541	165	57	Mark Graham posed a question to me earlier today asking what we know about the Twitter accounts of the members of Congress, specifically whether they have been removed after they left office. I was immediately reminded of the excellent congress-legislators project which collects all kinds of information about House and Senate members including their social media accounts into YAML files that are versioned in a GitHub repository. Unfortunately the file that tracks social media accounts is only for current members. And finally just because a Twitter username no longer seems to work, it's possible that the user has changed it to a new screen_name. If the user account is still there you can use the Twitter API to look up their current screen_name and see if it is different. After putting all this together it's possible to generate a simple table of legislators who left office at the end of the 116th Congress, and their Twitter account information.	./cache/inkdroid-org-1712.html	./txt/inkdroid-org-1712.txt