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Library of Congress To Receive Entire Twitter Archive
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signed an agreement that will see an archive of every public Tweet ever sent handed over to the library's repository of historical documents.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."
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?
Even if it's in their TOS that you lose all rights to the IP contained in a given tweet, this will more than guarantee some lawsuits from some very large groups.
...now the inane mumblings and poor grammar of the Twitter Age will be remembered throughout history. I was kinda hoping we'd eventually be able to forget all of this ever happened.
All my pooping tweets preserved for all posteriority. (intentional misspelling)
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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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.
Nothing interesting was found.
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Why?
I've thus far stayed out of the privacy debate, but this is starting to scare me. Where is our right to oblivion, as Jeffrey Rosen put it (see this article). We call it a right because it represents a fundamental part of the human psyche. Thusly, we can either adapt our system to account for it or face the consequences later when the system breaks down. I have to put in a dissenting vote for this idea.
Hopefully they compress it down to 1 bit.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
well now that the Twitter archive is part of the Library of Congress it can only reflected as a portion of the Library of Congress.
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'
This happened more than a year ago!!!!!
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acquires-entire-twitter-archive/
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Hopefully they compress it down to 1 bit.
And the value of that bit is "0".
Chaos maximizes locally around me.
Can you please tell me how many Libraries of Congress that is?
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