Are Your Twitter Account Tweets A Trash Or A Treasure
I just came across an article the other day on http://mashable.com/2010/04/14/twitter-library-of-congress/ saying that -
As a federal cultural institution, the Library of Congress exists for research purposes, preserving every form of written word imaginable — and now that includes our tweets.The institution deems tweets important and hopes to use the archives “to learn about ourselves and the world around us.” .... Biz Stone writes that after a six-month delay, “Tweets will be used for internal library use, for non-commercial research, public display by the library itself, and preservation.”
Continue Reading »As a federal cultural institution, the Library of Congress exists for research purposes, preserving every form of written word imaginable — and now that includes our tweets.The institution deems tweets important and hopes to use the archives “to learn about ourselves and the world around us.” .... Biz Stone writes that after a six-month delay, “Tweets will be used for internal library use, for non-commercial research, public display by the library itself, and preservation.”
Labels: Library, Social Media, Tweets, Twitter
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
