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The Library of Congress Twitter firehose archive never got off the ground: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/can-twitter-fit-inside-the-lib

• nl 9y ago
  And it's too bad, now that Twitter is actually affecting history.
  • greglindahl 9y ago
    Yeah, 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 ago
      Twitter'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 ago
        That makes it bad for the Library of Congress, yes, but they're already not succeeding. IA doesn't have firehose access.