Library of Congress to Archive Tweets
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Mind thoroughly blown. Thank you Root.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Also, why did you get rid of the Time Lord title?
Yeah, because how epic your burrito was is so damn important to US history!! /sarcasm
but in all seriousness, It would make much more sense if they only recorded the tweets that actually change history rather than every single one regardless of significance.
but in all seriousness, It would make much more sense if they only recorded the tweets that actually change history rather than every single one regardless of significance.
AgreedVirgil said:
At least get the information from somewhere that has less unimportant crap obscuring the view of useful information...
Only tangentally related, but I figure you'd know - why no twitter bird forum badge for adding your twitter account to your profile?Virgil said:
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Actually related: I can see -why- they're doing this, but I kinda hope they're weeding out everyone who types in text-speak, and all the porn bots. Cuz, seriously.
... maybe everything tagged with Justin Bieber, while they're at it.
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Oh good gods. Yeah, archiving personal letters and the like is understandable, after all those tend to chronicle things that were worth writing down. When, you know, informing other people about your personal situation actually took time and effort. When you didn't tweet about every single one of your wet goddamn farts. Archiving important tweets, OK, but the whole system? That's a new low in information technology.
Finally, someone shares the same concerns as me. Terrifying indeed. I see it as another step, along with cloud computing, mass surveillance and all the remaining phenomenons that stem from our technological and increasingly online age. Soon enough we'll be hearing and reading something in the lines of"Big Brother is watching you" all over the placeVirgil said:
That is incredibly cool! I've actually worried before about how future generations will be able to learn about us if all of the sites we spend so much time on go down and there's no other copy available. A project like this, though it might seem trivial, could prove to have unimaginable wealth for historians of the future, if for no other reason than to find out how people of our generation thought and acted. Very neat.
My first reaction was "you have got to be fucking kidding me". The more I think about it, the more this is like a digital version of a time capsule. But you know, instead of digging up a forty year old Twinkie, future generations can marvel at Oprah's weight struggle and Lindsey Lohan's drug abuse through the years.
While being tax-payer funded, what qualifications do you need to document Tweets? And how much money would one be paid from the Library of Congress to store Tweets?
Historical moments since 2006, I'm cool with them archiving that. Your mom saying she is sitting in the back yard and watching Desperate Housewives online? Yeah, nobody gives a hot poop about that now, I doubt the future will give a shit either.
If you Twitter, I already pity you, but just start posting the grossest and strangest Tweets you can about anything. Talk about getting drunk, doing crystal meth and jerking off to 2 Girls 1 Cup. Better yet, just start making totally ridiculous predictions about technology. Take that, future!
We're already seen the future in Back To The Future 2, so start bitching about the lack of flying cars and hover boards and self-lacing Nikes, then blame people in the future for making the present suck ass.
While being tax-payer funded, what qualifications do you need to document Tweets? And how much money would one be paid from the Library of Congress to store Tweets?
Historical moments since 2006, I'm cool with them archiving that. Your mom saying she is sitting in the back yard and watching Desperate Housewives online? Yeah, nobody gives a hot poop about that now, I doubt the future will give a shit either.
If you Twitter, I already pity you, but just start posting the grossest and strangest Tweets you can about anything. Talk about getting drunk, doing crystal meth and jerking off to 2 Girls 1 Cup. Better yet, just start making totally ridiculous predictions about technology. Take that, future!
We're already seen the future in Back To The Future 2, so start bitching about the lack of flying cars and hover boards and self-lacing Nikes, then blame people in the future for making the present suck ass.
Im sorry what if me, an australian would not like to have it recorded in an Ameican state goverment.
