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Re:Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress by tw1010 on Friday January 05, 2018 @11:31AM (#16079584)
Misleading, maybe, but I don't think many were confused about the actual meaning of the headline (I certainly wasn't).
Re:Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress by francisofascii on Friday January 05, 2018 @11:55AM (#16079728)
I and probably many others read it as the twitter account @librarycongress being deactivated.
Re:Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress by teh_klev on Friday January 05, 2018 @11:52AM (#16079711)
Hmmm...I dunno, I initially wondered if the current White House residents had issued a diktat shutting down their twitter account. Not an unimaginable thing in these strange times.
Re:Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress by fermienrico on Friday January 05, 2018 @11:49AM (#16079691)
So you actually read it as "The library of congress quits archiving Twitter"? Hmm...
Re:Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress by tw1010 on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:25PM (#16079973)
Yes. But I had heard of the news story about them starting to archive twitter. If I hadn't, maybe I would be more confused. Why would the library of congress quit twitter, I thought, and why would it even be a worthy enough event to warrant a news article? If they didn't find value in it, they would just stop posting. Why would a neutral government agency take something like a political stance against twitter? If I was wrong, yes, it definitely was news worthy. But occam's razor, and the law of clickbait, led me to the conclusion that most likely, it means that they've stopped archiving tweets, and not that they have deleted their account.