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The library of congress has them, if we could get a copy we could index it all somewhere to re-construct a copy of people's early timelines http://blogs.loc.go

by rythie 16y ago

The library of congress has them, if we could get a copy we could index it all somewhere to re-construct a copy of people's early timelines http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acquires-entire-twitter-archive/ http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acq... I was thinking recently about getting all the tweets from 2006, it should be about 2 million tweets, so should be possible to fetch by sequentially walking through the ids.

grinich 16y ago
This is great. It's going to be a goldmine for historians in a few years. Twitter is becoming a finger on the pulse of the world.
- Groxx 16y ago
  Only in that we'll be able to look back and, definitively, say that, yes, we have always been as stupid as we are now, with no discernible difference.
- jamalah 16y ago
  Twitter is going to be huge!