What a great way to end the winter semester and welcome spring: with tweets! Today the folks at the Library of Congress announced that they will acquired every public tweet issued since March 2006 when Twitter was launched. I'll admit that I wasn't always convinced that Twitter was anything more than a fad (I didn't think snowboarding would stick either and now it's in the Olympics). Much has been written about the social value of the billions of tweets that have been produced since 2006. But this move really seems to reify this sentiment.
The comments on the Library of Congress blog are the start of some amazing discussions. How will the archive be maintained? What information will be archived? How will it be accessed by researchers?
I guess it's time we all taking Twitter seriously?
The comments on the Library of Congress blog are the start of some amazing discussions. How will the archive be maintained? What information will be archived? How will it be accessed by researchers?
I guess it's time we all taking Twitter seriously?
Library of Congress Blog post:
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acquires-entire-twitter-archive/
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