[QUESTION] Deleted tweets, suspended accounts - can twint retrieve them?

[olivergarretson]

• Python version is 3.6;
• Updated Twint with pip3 install --user --upgrade -e git+https://github.com/twintproject/twint.git@origin/master#egg=twint;
• I have searched the issues and there are no duplicates of this issue/question/request.

I'm not sure if twint can retrieve tweets from suspended accounts or otherwise deleted tweets. I suppose I should have made sure of this before figuring out how to use it! But anyways, does twint have this capability? Did it at one time? I'm fairly certain I read that it could.

Here's the command I ran:

import twint
#config
c = twint.Config()
c.Since = '2020-07-01'
c.Until = '2020-07-31'
c.Search = "from:@prayingmedic"
c.Store_object = True
c.Limit = 1000
c.Store_csv = True
c.Output = ("C:\TwintVirEnv\twintprayingmedic.csv")
c.Debug = True
twint.run.Search(c)

pasting this command resulted in:

import twint
#config
... c = twint.Config()
c.Since = '2020-07-01'
c.Until = '2020-07-31'
c.Search = "from:@prayingmedic"
c.Store_object = True
c.Limit = 1000
c.Store_csv = True
c.Output = ("C:\TwintVirEnv\twintprayingmedic.csv")
c.Debug = True
twint.run.Search(c)
[!] No more data! Scraping will stop now.
found 0 deleted tweets in this search.

I did test this out with a user I know isn't banned, and it worked. I'm working on a study of QAnon (during July 2020) and am trying to get data on a set of users that was banned/suspended sometime before I exported my dataset from the service I was using (which I can now see why capturing tweets from the stream is preferred).