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Re:Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets by Alishaw on Friday September 24, 2010 @05:27PM (#1725498)
i like it that tweets are ephemeral. its good that way. why the need to archive every-fucking-thing? imagine how shit the world would be if everyone could browse everything they ever said? rather than the things memorable enough to remember. or memorable enough to someone else that they'd remember? imagine how many useful people would become lawyers?

WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????

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Re:Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets by pronoiac on Friday September 24, 2010 @09:14PM (#1726023)
Historians & archaeologists value having an unfiltered look at what people were doing & thinking, because it's more honest than, well, looking at memorable events in retrospect with 20/20 hindsight, filtered through biases that only happened later.
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