Tom CoatesA particularly catastrophic day at Twitter. The people reassuring advertisers yesterday that everything was fine quit, along with the heads of trust and safety, ad sales and most importantly the three people who were responsible for filing a document to the FTC detailing their protections in place for user data. Those three were the heads of information security, compliance and privacy. When they leave like that you know it’s bad. Law-breaking, privacy violating, insecure bad.
Sam Jack@tomcoates With the speed of the unraveling, I’m concerned about the Twitter archive - the trillions of historic tweets that are sitting on servers somewhere. Is anyone going to make it their business to preserve those if/when the company goes bankrupt? The Library of Congress announced plans to archive all tweets, but they gave up that idea years ago. The loss to current and future scholars would be profound.
Pseudo Nym@samtjack @tomcoates hey @textfiles I assume archive.org have something in place to try and crawl public Twitter before it all goes away?
Anything we can point people at to help grab copies of stuff before it's gone?
Can people grab their individual data downloads and share them with archive.org ?
Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦@pseudonym @samtjack @tomcoates @textfiles
Go to archive.org and request an archive of twitter handles that you think are imperative to save. I don't know if you need an account to do that. (Maybe?)
But that will NOT grab media, unfortunately.
Here's the infamous @TesIaReal account there:
I was the first to archive it but there are now five instances.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/https://twitter.com/TesIaReal
@pseudonym @samtjack @tomcoates @textfiles
Of course, you can archive your own account!
Here are some of the accounts on archive.org (a random list)
https://twitter.com/GreatDismal
https://twitter.com/HC_Richardson
https://twitter.com/joshtpm
https://twitter.com/Kate_Kelly_Esq
https://twitter.com/NASA_Astronauts
Good lord. Mine is there. What?
@kegill @samtjack @tomcoates @textfiles
And, for anything looking for the direct link to request a page be saved:
Sam, there are a lot of tweets at archive.org ... if anyone could have access to that pipe, I'm guessing it would be one of the major ad agencies.