Library of Congress Archiving Every Twitter Entry

[Guest]

Saying the breakup of Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy is a significant global event on par with the Haiti earthquake sure minimizes the significance of that crisis.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]domenic[/nom]Have they (Library of Congress) created the perfect internet library yet? Have they run out of all existing media to digitize? -- And all they have left is tweets? BTW, what is the current US national debt?[/citation]

http/www.usdebtclock.org/

[citation][nom]joelshum[/nom]Saying the breakup of Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy is a significant global event on par with the Haiti earthquake sure minimizes the significance of that crisis.[/citation]

Or maximized the significance of Jim and Jen.

 

[ryanjm]

Ahahahahhaha! This is almost exactly like the latest Onion News skit: http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kn_GqbXQgM
except instead of Mr. Year 3000 finding our porn stash, they're going to be reading through countless twitters with stuff like "Woke up, took shit." or "OMG Did u here wut Britney said!?! That slut!"

Poor future Earth people.

 

[Supertrek32]

1000 years in the future, assuming we haven't killed ourselves off by then, it'll be an interesting way of looking into the past - how we primitives lived.

 

[Euphoria_MK]

[citation][nom]gayan[/nom]errrrrrrrrr.......and the purpose of all this is?[/citation]
Waste taxpayer's money on rubbish.

 

[bison88]

[citation][nom]sliem[/nom]What a waste.[/citation]


Seriously...sounds like people are finding any reason to make use of the massive emptiness on there super large data centers ever since 500GB+ hard drives became dirt cheap.

 

[wild9]

[citation][nom]phatboe[/nom]wouldn't it be better to archive the NY times, CNN.com or some other reputable news source than some random internet dude who may be twitering about his sore thumb.[/citation]


..oh, and the icing on the cake, the BBC. Looking forward to seeing a concise and impartial coverage of contemporary issues that takes into account both sides of the story and never, ever distorts the issue to suit THEIR own agenda. Yes we can.

 

[freename]

Anyone else wonder if it's so agencies/companies can use it for data-mining?

 

[nforce4max]

Sigh another disgrace......

The sooner the country implodes the quicker this ridiculous crap will be over.

OMG OMG OMG Tiger, Britney, YAY!!! Drools at mouth like sedated moron..

 

[dark_lord69]

I read the headline and the first thing I said to myself is...
Dumb.

 

[husker]

[citation][nom]freename[/nom]Anyone else wonder if it's so agencies/companies can use it for data-mining?[/citation]
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!

 

[tommysch]

167 terabytes ...

Just that?

I have a 2 TB C: and a 6 TB D:

So the Library of Congress has 20 times the storage capacity of my personal computer. lol.

That would easily fit in a 2-3 RAID NAS cabinet.

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]sliem[/nom]What a waste.[/citation]
Agreed. I don't pay taxes for spending on this cr@p!

 

[gm0n3y]

If you really think about it, assuming that this is automated, this wouldn't really cost all that much. At the most, $100k, which on the grand scale of things isn't that bad.

 

[rawoysters]

Largest collection of meaningless dribble ever.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]rawoysters[/nom]Largest collection of meaningless dribble ever.[/citation]

No, I think Fox News has that market cornered.

 

[tallguy1618]

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.

 

[False_Dmitry_II]

Actually I don't think this is a terrible idea. After all this is just text, and text compresses wonderfully. I bet they didn't have to actually do anything at all to their already existing stuff to get this done.

 

[lauxenburg]

Wow! That is creepy and intruding....cool none the less. Don't use twitter. Someones is going to have to update their storage servers.....1,000TB of SATAIII SSD pl0x?

 

[Guest]

disgusting!!!