Tweets can detail events of local, national and global importance which may only have value in hindsight. To risk losing a stream of tweets regarding a milesto

Tweets can detail events of local, national and global importance which may only have value in hindsight. To risk losing a stream of tweets regarding a milestone event because you don't like Twitter's API policy seems quite small sighted. 99.9999% of what comes through twitter is wasted bits. I still see value in archiving it all to guarantee capturing a real time log of an historic election, the death of a notable person, the announcement of a major discovery, or the day to day thoughts during a protest or revolution. We have 19th century diaries detailing a rector's daily meals for his entire adult life while we have recovered nearly nothing regarding the poor living in slums in London, except through the distant scornful commentary of the gentry. The LoC shouldn't be endorsing Twitter as a company, but the users of Twitter have endorsed it by logging the course of human events.