Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress.
These are the opening lines from a Library of Congress Blog post. We have all heard stories of how people doing not so smart things and sharing them with the world have had repercussions, but now the post will be immortalized.
I am curious for our readers out there who use Twitter, is this going to influence how you use the system? After all, your tweets are publicly available anyway, so does it really make a difference?
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Were paying for this kind of crap along with the 900 dollar hammers and other stuff. And people can’t believe theirs any reason for the tea party nuts to be up in arms. Jesus, the government gives them another reason every day to be out there throwing public fits.
I always thought that everything you put into writing on the web was archived someplace anyway. So what’s new here, besides the apparent waste of time, energy, and money?
This whole uproar has be rotflma for two reasons:
1) What in the world is on Twitter that’s so important it needs to be archived in the Library of Congress? We really need to know what Joe the Plumber had for dinner for eternity???
2) The people who are all worried about what they’ve posted being archived – perhaps that’s a good wake up call for them. Post stuff on the internet at your own risk. You think your posts are any less private now than they were before???
I actually agree it should be archived in the Library of Congress. What is said on Twitter today forms a picture of what our society is like today. It will be an invaluable historical resource in 100 years and even more into the future.
@Albert.
Okay so in a hundred years will anyone care what color a bunch of cheerleaders chose for their uniforms or what pom-poms they chose to match?
This is completely ridiculous. No one cares about twitter, and just looking at all of the pointless posts, and thinking that this is what future generations will read, sickens me.