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This is such a weird issue: NARA has the job of maintaining this archive, not Twitter. The issue isn't that NARA doesn't have a copy of the content: the issue i
by saurik 6y ago
This is such a weird issue: NARA has the job of maintaining this archive, not Twitter. The issue isn't that NARA doesn't have a copy of the content: the issue is that they somehow want to host the national archive on Twitter's service? That doesn't even sound like a smart thing to do even if it were a reasonable request: Twitter might simply go out of business, or change their model... NARA should have its own website with all of the tweets. Hell: it could be a PDF!
- jfengel 6y agoThat's exactly it. NARA is trying to figure out how to do that. They don't have an existing plan in place for making tweets public. So they asked Twitter to do it. Twitter said no. NARA said that's fine, they'll figure it out. TFA actually quotes NARA saying that. “Twitter is solely responsible for the decision of what content is available on their platform." It's just the headline that makes it seem like there's a conflict here. I'm not sure why NARA even bothered to ask. It might be interesting to know. I suspect it has to do with making the presentation of the records as true-to-life as possible, the same way an archaeologist wants to preserve as much of the context of a dig as they can (and not just loot up a bunch of artifacts). Twitter doesn't wanna do that, understandably. So NARA will have to figure something else out. But it didn't hurt to ask.