[surrealize]

They can, just not in real time.

"Tweets that share someone else’s historical (not same-day) location information are also not prohibited by this policy."

[SXX]

Yes. According to Twitter policy there must be "24 hours" delay since it's only way to follow "not same-day" rule. This will obviously makes Twitter useless for any news reporting.

[belorn]

Could you give an example from today's news which would be in violation of that rule?