LibrarianshipwreckNov 15, 2022

Look, I’m not saying that Twitter is about to vanish, taking an important slice of the records of the history of the early-21st century with it.

But if you’re doing any kind of research that cites someone’s tweets…now is a great time to make sure you have screenshots.

Show threadNino KadicNov 15, 2022
@librarianshipwreck Definitely not going to vanish, but maybe become less relevant, sort of like what happened to Tumblr. Or, ideally, someone buys it and makes it better. Definitely a good moment for a new social network to jump in and take over (though sadly, I don't think Mastodon will be able to do that).
Show threadAlexander Hamizdat 

@nino @librarianshipwreck as a cloud engineer myself... let's just say "definitely" is doing a bit more work in that sentence than I'm comfortable with.

and that's before the possibility of the DoJ or EU just seizing their DNS like it's a double-parked car headed to impound.

Nov 15, 2022 at 10:00pmWeb
Show threadNino KadicNov 15, 2022
@alexhammy209 @librarianshipwreck I'm not a tech expert, I guess I was expressing my hopes rather than a strong opinion. But I just think that such a huge website will survive in some way 🤷🏻‍♂️
Show threadAlexander Hamizdat Nov 15, 2022

@nino @librarianshipwreck let me just say that probably is up to the job that definitely isn't going to be able to manage.

it's really likely that it will survive/be recoverable.

but it's like any big, complicated operation, there's an actual risk of it being damaged beyond repair and the normal safeguards against that irreparable failure have been systematically stripped away.

Show threadNino KadicNov 15, 2022
@alexhammy209 @librarianshipwreck Yeah.. Here's hoping it doesn't turn out like that :/