TimewornTravelerOh god, we're about 10 years away from Zoomers grumbling that "kids these days wont know what Tweeting is!"
And nothing of value was lost.
harkand deny internet archeologists of the future this goldmine? I don’t think so!
Not to mention linguists. I read a book (Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch, great read) that cited many studies that used Twitter as their primary source. Basically, the linguists used Tweets as a way to understand how people talk causally on the internet; what is more causal than a Tweet?