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Library of Congress to archive your tweets
By Doug Gross, CNN
April 14, 2010 5:31 p.m. EDT
(CNN) -- Every 140-character snippet of info you've ever shared publicly on Twitter will soon have a home next to the Declaration of Independence.
Twitter and the Library of Congress announced Wednesday that every public tweet posted since Twitter started in 2006 will be archived digitally by the federal library.
The purpose, according to a blog post by Library of Congress communications director Matt Raymond, is to document "important tweets" as well as gather information about the way we live through the sheer masses of tweets on the site.
"I'm no Ph.D., but it boggles my mind to think what we might be able to learn about ourselves and the world around us from this wealth of data," Raymond said in the post. And I'm certain we'll learn things that none of us now can even possibly conceive."
Twitter says it receives about 55 million tweets every day -- amounting to billions of them since its inception.
Only tweets from public Twitter feeds will be included, not those that have been set as private.
For that reason, one expert didn't think the move would raise huge concerns among privacy activists.
"Twitter was always designed to be public," said John Verdi, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. "And I think folks understand that whatever they post on Twitter is meant to be searchable. So I don't see a big issue here."
Verdi said he would feel differently if the federal government seeks to identify users through their tweets or to match Twitter users with other information about citizens that is stored in federal databases.
Examples of notable tweets the library cited Wednesday include the first-ever tweet from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, the tweet on Barack Obama's account after he won the 2008 election and a pair of tweets from a photojournalist who was arrested in Egypt, then freed after a series of events stemming from his use of the micro-blogging site.
"It's very exciting that tweets are becoming part of history," Twitter said Wednesday on its official blog. "The open exchange of information can have a positive global impact. This is something we firmly believe and it has driven many of our decisions regarding openness."
The announcement came during Twitter's first Chirp conference for developers.
It's a busy news time for the site, which saw massive growth in early 2009 and, according to co-founder Biz Stone, now has more than 105 million registered accounts.
Also Wednesday, Google announced it will soon allow users to search Twitter's entire database, pulling up what was being said about a particular topic at a particular time.
And Tuesday, Twitter rolled out its much-anticipated advertising platform, a plan that will let advertisers pay to have their tweets appear at the top of searches.
Far from being just a depository for old paper documents -- like a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence and a Gutenberg Bible -- the Library of Congress has been compiling information from the Internet for years.
According to Raymond, the library houses more than 167 terabytes of Web-based information, including legal blogs, Web sites of candidates for national office, and Web sites of members of Congress, collected since 2000.
On Wednesday afternoon Twitter users already were responding, sometimes comedically, to the news.
"I'd like to thank the Library of Congress for proving my graduating class wrong when they said I was least likely to ever be found in one," wrote blogger Ruth Akers.
Library of Congress to archive your tweets
By Doug Gross, CNN
April 14, 2010 5:31 p.m. EDT
(CNN) -- Every 140-character snippet of info you've ever shared publicly on Twitter will soon have a home next to the Declaration of Independence.
Twitter and the Library of Congress announced Wednesday that every public tweet posted since Twitter started in 2006 will be archived digitally by the federal library.
The purpose, according to a blog post by Library of Congress communications director Matt Raymond, is to document "important tweets" as well as gather information about the way we live through the sheer masses of tweets on the site.
"I'm no Ph.D., but it boggles my mind to think what we might be able to learn about ourselves and the world around us from this wealth of data," Raymond said in the post. And I'm certain we'll learn things that none of us now can even possibly conceive."
Twitter says it receives about 55 million tweets every day -- amounting to billions of them since its inception.
Only tweets from public Twitter feeds will be included, not those that have been set as private.
For that reason, one expert didn't think the move would raise huge concerns among privacy activists.
"Twitter was always designed to be public," said John Verdi, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. "And I think folks understand that whatever they post on Twitter is meant to be searchable. So I don't see a big issue here."
Verdi said he would feel differently if the federal government seeks to identify users through their tweets or to match Twitter users with other information about citizens that is stored in federal databases.
Examples of notable tweets the library cited Wednesday include the first-ever tweet from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, the tweet on Barack Obama's account after he won the 2008 election and a pair of tweets from a photojournalist who was arrested in Egypt, then freed after a series of events stemming from his use of the micro-blogging site.
"It's very exciting that tweets are becoming part of history," Twitter said Wednesday on its official blog. "The open exchange of information can have a positive global impact. This is something we firmly believe and it has driven many of our decisions regarding openness."
The announcement came during Twitter's first Chirp conference for developers.
It's a busy news time for the site, which saw massive growth in early 2009 and, according to co-founder Biz Stone, now has more than 105 million registered accounts.
Also Wednesday, Google announced it will soon allow users to search Twitter's entire database, pulling up what was being said about a particular topic at a particular time.
And Tuesday, Twitter rolled out its much-anticipated advertising platform, a plan that will let advertisers pay to have their tweets appear at the top of searches.
Far from being just a depository for old paper documents -- like a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence and a Gutenberg Bible -- the Library of Congress has been compiling information from the Internet for years.
According to Raymond, the library houses more than 167 terabytes of Web-based information, including legal blogs, Web sites of candidates for national office, and Web sites of members of Congress, collected since 2000.
On Wednesday afternoon Twitter users already were responding, sometimes comedically, to the news.
"I'd like to thank the Library of Congress for proving my graduating class wrong when they said I was least likely to ever be found in one," wrote blogger Ruth Akers.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
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Glad I don't talk about nwo or whatever on there ...i got youtube for that , though google bought youtube if im correct aie aie aie
Even if twitts are public it is a different thing to collect them into a data base.
"I'm no Ph.D., but it boggles my mind to think what we might be able to learn about ourselves and the world around us from this wealth of data," Raymond said in the post. And I'm certain we'll learn things that none of us now can even possibly conceive." Really ? I wonder what kind of things and for what purpose ? Seriously they're not doing that to satisfy their thirst of knowledge. <!-- s:? -->:?<!-- s:? -->
LOL I talk a lot of NWO so I deleted all my tweets about that
See, this is what happens when people get scared, and this is exactly what they want to accomplish. They want you to shut up, and for sure not tweet about things they rather not see out there as those tweets could wake people up and make them realize they're f-ed around. It's about fear and control.
Why??? So you are silenced already with one article? I guess they are succeeding already.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."OH I LOVE Mo and Souza, you ladies are so Freakin SMART and BADASS!!
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Peace
But social networks it´s something a really don´t feel like getting into...
Maybe because they use it to survey people to provide advertising and that´s really anoying...
If I´m not wrong there is a documentary on the world according to twitter... similar to the google one.
But I can´t remember it now nor find it.
Just don't post personal stuff there - that's not only for twitter, but also for Google.
As soon as you put your name into a form at a site that uses GoogleAnalytics f.e. Google has got your name and is able to connect it with your IP. Just as an example. Of course, they deny, they'd do something like that. Yeah, right...
This site uses Google Analytics as well - I just saw it and I'm very surprised!!
@Mo & Souza - I can't really imagine you decided to put it here?
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You totally understood me
I'm always scared to talk about those stuff in Facebook and now Twitter, and phone, I prefer to talk directly to the person face to face about Illuminati
but yes i'm scared
Something by the way they don´t advertise too much <!-- s;) -->;)<!-- s;) --> (I mean Google Patents)+
To find Google Patents, you need to google Google Patents... it´s not on the application list...
An a very curious thing about that...
Many of the taking data aplications that can be found on Google Patents use Michael Jackson´s name to set as example on the patent documents... check it if you want...
go Google Patents, search for Michael Jackson et voilá!
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Some of the results are really interesting... plus the Michael´s Smooth Criminal Shoe´s patent is also there...
A little off topic but really interesting to me.
I never got twitter and the point of it... but it could be a useful tool, like you guys who are using to spread the truth...
I don't really get Twitter either. I just tweet stupid random stuff off and on,..not very often either. I think it's really only helpful for people who use cell phones and text a lot (because they can tweet once and it goes to everyone following them so it saves a lot of time)...and since I don't text it is pointless for me in that regard. OR, it's good for people with a website or business or something and they want to send quick updates to lots of people at once. Beyond that, I just don't see the point of it. LOL <!-- s:D -->:D<!-- s:D -->
i agree with you mo. this is what they want. <!-- s:) -->:)<!-- s:) -->
Google is e.g. working on a software for (among others) "seeing devices" and has entered the mobile phone business (developping them). Now you may say - what's wrong with that?
Well, if used properly, you may visit Florence in Italy and while standing in front of Palazzo di Medici scan the building front with your mobile. The reportedly planned interaction with google will send you explanations from e.g. wikipedia on who the Medici were, when they lived and what else is worth visiting on your tourist tour in Florence. Fine solution saving tons of travel pocket books.
You may also think of scanning a person's face with your mobile - sending it to google and google will check in the same way whether they find any data in their database. It may turn out that they scan google images, find a photo that fits, check facebook for the address and social friends, family data, employer, latest CVs, bank accounts, internet preferences (don't download google chrome or add the google toolbar), check google maps and send the results where the person is living back on your mobile. This was discussed early this year and google has no issues with their activities in this.
Whatever you send into web will be stored there. Google does not delete collected data.
Google is the most powerful existing data base on earth. Who has data access? Who is behind google?
Additional data connections may follow. Your telephone and internet connections are open as a book since it is all digitally stored. Your financial data are available from your online banking and digital credit card. Your home may be supervised without you knowing via digital devices (check them for microphones). Your daily movements may be supervised via your mobile phone wandering from cell to cell.
The only temporarly existing issue with all the available data is still that interacting connections are not easy to set up. Data volume is so immence that there are most likely no devices available today that are capable to manage data interconnections of all areas mentioned above. While the superpower data centers are most likely not yet available today this does not mean nobody is working on them.
It is interesting that forces are now directed into reducing conventional weapons on the globe when the danger with most effects on our lives actually is concerning information.
Don't publish your personal data in the web.
Don't even publish "I am a week on vacation". There are enough cases of people to have found their home ravaged when returning - because they left their address with their joy in the web.
Be careful in the web as always when you meet a stranger.
Be careful what you allow others to know about yourself.
If you don't want to be traced down, throw as many digital devices and applications as possible out of your life.
This goes especially to the younger folks in here that are so unconditionally fond of all the new toys.
Ha ha, I have purchased some extremely rare books with stamps from Library of Congress that they got rid of a while ago. They are about one of the most precious treasures: human culture and language. It seems they want to sell the good stuff and save the ordinary?
Good idea. I'll buy it all.
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