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IIRC, some years back I read that the Library even had a full archive of all of Twitter, up to that date at least.
by vram22 6y ago
IIRC, some years back I read that the Library even had a full archive of all of Twitter, up to that date at least.
- at-fates-hands 6y agoThey changed their policy back in 2017: However, almost 12 years of tweets is still very cool. A LOT of startups probably had quite a bit of material in those early days of social media. But today, the institution announced it will no longer archive every one of our status updates, opinion threads, and "big if true"s. As of Jan. 1, the library will only acquire tweets "on a very selective basis." The library says it began archiving tweets "for the same reason it collects other materials — to acquire and preserve a record of knowledge and creativity for Congress and the American people." The archive stretches back to Twitter's beginning, in 2006. The institution says it will continue to preserve its collection of tweets from the platform's first 12 years, but indicates that it has yet to figure out exactly how to make the archive public. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/26/573609499/library-of-congress-will-no-longer-archive-every-tweet https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/26/573609499...
- stjohnswarts 6y agowhat a waste of disk space :)
- dr-detroit 6y agoOh jeez. That's where all my money went. GREAT. Now we have an archive of bots marketing trash to bots.