--- title: Bernie Sanders Has Deleted 58 Tweets So Far in 2016 description: More than any other candidate canonical: https://time.com/4249498/bernie-sanders-tweet-delete/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-07T15:48:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:40:33.191Z article:section: Politics og:title: Bernie Sanders Soars Ahead of the 2016 Field... og:description: ... in the contest of who has deleted the most tweets og:url: https://time.com/4249498/bernie-sanders-tweet-delete/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bernie Sanders Soars Ahead of the 2016 Field... twitter:description: ... in the contest of who has deleted the most tweets twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Bernie Sanders Leads the 2016 Pack in Deleting Tweets by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Mar 7, 2016 3:48 PM UTC by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Mar 7, 2016 3:48 PM UTC Bernie Sanders is ahead of his rivals in one key 2016 metric: Deleting tweets. Politwoops, a tool that records the tweets politicians delete, has found the Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate deleted 58 tweets so far in 2016\. Those deletions, most of which were retweets, represents the most by any candidate in the 2016 race on either side of the aisle. Gov. John Kasich of Ohio tops the GOP field in deletions with 31, according to a report on the deletions by [_The Hill_](http://thehill.com/policy/technology/271885-sanders-tops-2016-field-in-newly-deleted-tweets) newspaper. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, whose fiery tweets and [ill-advised retweets](http://time.com/4190482/donald-trump-twitter-racist-retweet/) have garnered coverage throughout the campaign, follows behind with 28 deletions. Though the numbers are interesting, the most striking of the deleted tweets have already garnered significant media attention, a fact that speaks to the power (and danger) of constant social sharing in the midst of a 21st century political contest. The most notable deletion of Sanders’ was a tweet that misidentified a list of nouns as a list of adjectives. Read more at the [_Hill._](http://thehill.com/policy/technology/271885-sanders-tops-2016-field-in-newly-deleted-tweets) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4249498/bernie-sanders-tweet-delete/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4249498/bernie-sanders-tweet-delete/"},"headline":"Bernie Sanders Leads the 2016 Pack in Deleting Tweets","datePublished":"2016-03-07T15:48:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:40:33.191Z","description":"He's deleted 58 tweets so far this year","url":"https://time.com/4249498/bernie-sanders-tweet-delete/","keywords":["2016 Election","Social Media","2016 Election topic","twitter","Bernie Sanders","Donald Trump","john kasich"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4249498/bernie-sanders-tweet-delete/","name":"Bernie Sanders Leads the 2016 Pack in Deleting Tweets"}}]}] ```