Re:Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress
by forgottenpass on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:13PM
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These days I find the relationship between writers and twitter more interesting than twitter itself. It's like they still haven't internalized the properties of the medium that were well-understood back in 2010.
Maybe they're just the voice of perspectives that are more widespread, but every news or pop culture take I see about twitter seems to be born from the unexpectedly-complicated relationship they seem to have with becoming yet another head in an unimaginably large crowd of people. Where everyone can talk to everyone, anyone, or nobody in particular.
> “Today, we announce a change in collections practice for Twitter. Effective Jan. 1, 2018, the Library will acquire tweets on a selective basis—similar to our collections of web sites.” The phrasing was elegant, but the sentiment was nonetheless familiar: “Quitting this shit!!!!”
No. That's not at all the sentiment I get from that. The volume has probably grown too big and it makes little sense to archive spend money archiving all of it.