Library of Congress Archiving Every Twitter Entry

[Gin Fushicho]

Glad I don't twitter anything. Unlike those people who twitter immediately after sex. "I just had sex with my GF, it was awesome... lol" /sigh

 

[husker]

[citation][nom]tallguy1618[/nom]I am disappointed at how many people don't see the value in this. Anybody who knows anything about ancient Rome knows that the VAST majority of our knowledge comes from Cicero's writings and letters. This is the type of thing that, when looked back upon a thousand years from now, will let future historians know how we lived and thought. I feel excited at how great an idea this is.[/citation]
The difference is that in ancient Rome they didn't have film, television, well preserved time capsules, the internet, photography, mass produced books and dvds, mp3 players, voice recorders, and so many other ways that already document our society in such painfully meticulous detail. Archeology will be one boring scientific field when all they have to do is watch movies and read tweets all day.

 

[welshmousepk]

"the Haitian earthquake, the breakup of Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy, and other significant global events."

one of those events is significant, and to imply that they are even remotely similar in magnitude is shameful. whoever wrote this article should lose their job.

 

[welshmousepk]

CONT. btw, i realize that it wasn't written by someone at toms (just read my post and it comes of that way). whoever actually wrote this in the first place should be losing their job. or at least their twitter account.

 

[skalagon]

Lol this is a great idea ffs, think about all the famous people e.g. politicians, writers, film stars etc who will have tweeted their opinions about important matters the last 4 years? Also it would provide a great source of information on the opinions of average joes as events happen. This information would be extremely useful to historians. Sure most of the tweets will be rubbish but some of them would be extremely helpful to future scholars. Anyone who thinks this is a waste of time either hasn't thought about it or has no idea what a primary source is or how historians work.

 

[dreamphantom_1977]

Holy crap that is gonna take a lot of data centers. What a way to go green. Whats next are they gonna record every ones conversations on there phones and put them on audio tapes for people to listen to?

What a waste of time and money.

 

[jkflipflop98]

[citation][nom]husker[/nom]Absolutely! That is why I stay away from social networking sites
.Also, just in case this forum is archived at the LoC for future generations: James, The Twelve Monkeys had nothing to do with it![/citation]

Now that's f'n funny.