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Re:If Twitter Goes Down in Flames, What Happens to Its Colle... by dekhn on Monday December 12, 2022 @12:48PM (#33957702)
For a while, the Library of Congress was archiving all of Twitter. They stopped a while back because the volume was so high and the value was so low.
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Re:If Twitter Goes Down in Flames, What Happens to Its Colle... by dudzik on Monday December 12, 2022 @12:55PM (#33957793)
I wonder why they didn’t archive the most relevant tweets only. A library keeps only a subset of all available books in its archive as well.

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From the article, there are copyright issues when archiving tweets. The people tweeting own their tweets. So the archive doesn’t want to expose itself to that risk.

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Re:If Twitter Goes Down in Flames, What Happens to Its Colle... by dekhn on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:49PM (#33958523)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Copyright_Office... with respect to copyright.
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