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5 people have posted about this very thing over the past 14 years and this will be searchable for decades going forward, either through Google or the way back m
by thawaya3113 4y ago
5 people have posted about this very thing over the past 14 years and this will be searchable for decades going forward, either through Google or the way back machine, or possibly through a publicly funded way back machine like alternative.
Meanwhile the odds that your tweet or FB post will be searchable and archivable anywhere close to that is extremely low.
The open Internet is so much better. I hope we start moving back towards it.
- mrpopo 4y agoAlso interesting that this is this person's only blog post ever, and dating from 2017.
- Izkata 4y agoWell, take a look at the blog's URL...
- eyelidlessness 4y agoI certainly don’t expect my FB posts to live forever except on some surveillance server. But tweets? They’re almost all public. They’ve been and are being crawled just like the old web. I’m pretty confident I have a higher likelihood of finding my tweets in some distant future than anything I’ve self-published on the web.
- bsaul 4y agoFrom an historian POV, those closed-data communication platforms are going to end up as a black hole. So much of our life has happened through them, and yet will be invisible to historian. It's really a problem.
- Kuinox 4y agoHopefully the Internet Archive save twitter tweets streams, and other closed source platforms.