Library of Congress archives EVERY Tweet forever!

[Napoleon's Shadow]

http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acquires-entire-twitter-archive/

[sevin]

What the hell for?

[CaptainAmerica]

the U.S.Congress is stupid.

[Fox McCloud]

Wonder how much longer it'll be before the CIA and FBI start combing through it and analyzing various tweets for "malicious and possibly nefarious intentions". >>

[acptulsa]

Why am I reminded of that scene from The Simpsons Movie with a million NSA employees bored out of their minds listening to the mind-numbing drivel of everyone's daily lives...

[VBRonPaulFan]

what a complete and utter waste of money in storage. i remember reading a while back that at the height of Justin Bieber mania, tweets about him were taking up 7 racks of servers 24/7. Now think about all the other dumb and pointless shit people tweet about, and imagine holding all that data somewhere.

[smartguy911]

i think Facebook archives pic/messages/comments forever even after you delete them

[specsaregood]

What the hell for?

To leave some archaelogical evidence for future explorers on what exactly a civilization at its pinnacle and due for collapse looks like. cheers!

[dannno]

I'm going to tweet this link.

[Napoleon's Shadow]

Wonder how much longer it'll be before the CIA and FBI start combing through it and analyzing various tweets for "malicious and possibly nefarious intentions". >>I seem to recall that Twitter was actually started with seed money from either the NSA or the CIA.

[libertybrewcity]

i haz taxpayer dolers?