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I think you're misunderstanding the context. IIRC, this isn't a collection of all tweets, etc (though the Library of Congress is already doing that), it's a cu
by Chaebixi 9y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the context.
IIRC, this isn't a collection of all tweets, etc (though the Library of Congress is already doing that), it's a curated collection of tweets, many important enough that some journalist somewhere bothered to write an article about them.
- greglindahl 9y agoThe Library of Congress Twitter firehose archive never got off the ground: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/can-twitter-fit-inside-the-library-of-congress/494339/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/can-t...
- nl 9y agoAnd it's too bad, now that Twitter is actually affecting history.
- greglindahl 9y agoYeah, it's a shame! The Internet Archive does some twitter archiving -- I helped a little by finding a listing of government social media accounts -- but it's not enough.
- nl 9y agoTwitter's policies make it worse, since if you have firehose access you are required to delete tweets when the account deletes them. This is a well known tactic of many bot-net operators, and has made investigating them much harder. Even worse, Twitter went and deleted the Russian accounts (and tweets) which Facebook had identified for them...
- greglindahl 9y agoThat makes it bad for the Library of Congress, yes, but they're already not succeeding. IA doesn't have firehose access.