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Yes you could, however, this isn't only about the trustworthiness of your claim. More importantly it's about the trustworthiness of the longevity of the data.

Twitter can remove a single post or turn off their servers and your prove is gone. That's not so easy for a BitCoin transaction. Once it's added to the blockchain it's there for as long as anyone is running a bitcoin node.

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