Library of Congress To Receive Entire Twitter Archive

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 7, 2011 @09:27AM from the that's-a-lot-more-than-144-characters dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Library of Congress and Twitter have signed an agreement that will see an archive of every public Tweet ever sent handed over to the library's repository of historical documents. 'We have an agreement with Twitter where they have a bunch of servers with their historic archive of tweets, everything that was sent out and declared to be public,' said Bill Lefurgy, the digital initiatives program manager at the library's national digital information infrastructure and preservation program. Researchers will be able to look at the Twitter archive as a complete set of data, which they could then data-mine for interesting information."

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Even deleted ones? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-12-07 09:29 · Score: 5, Interesting

I deleted my Twitter account and it's been 30 days. Does Twitter still keep those tweets for posterity on their servers through some manner of legal acrobatics?
Re:yes, but... by TheSpoom · 2011-12-07 09:35 · Score: 4, Interesting

By itself probably a lot, but remember it's mostly text. They'll be able to compress the hell out of it.

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