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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 n
by 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 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.