So, if Twitter goes to hell and just becomes defunct, we’re going to lose entire chapters of recent history — including evidence of war crimes, human rights violations, and more. I hope we’re all paying attention to this and considering what we need to do to ensure that a billionaire can’t decide which parts of history to retain — and which parts to erase forever.
@rvawonk SETI at home but for downloading and archiving every public Tweet ever
@rvawonk @igb I wonder what ever happened to that project to archive tweets with the Library of Congress
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“@jayholler @igb @biz @internetarchive Other gnip folks can chime in, but what biz says is partially wrong(gnip did the providing). We did provide data to LOC, a nightly HPT job iirc. I think we stopped because they admitted they couldn’t do anything (like provide search or whatever).”

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