The Library of Congress will now host billions of twitter messages!
The Library of Congress appears to be currently under extreme traffic load, having just announced that it’s acquiring the entire Twitter database of messages, going all the way back to 2006.
This does not seem like a belated April Fool’s joke.
For those of you that don’t think twice before you tweet, here’s the scoop:
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.
That’s right. Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. That’s a LOT of tweets, by the way: Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets every day, with the total numbering in the billions.
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Oh, I don’t like that idea. I don’t really know why but why should they keep all our tweets? What value do they have to them?
Not sure, Randall. Maybe the number of tweets about the acquisition of the Twitter database by the Library of Congress will outnumber the entire number of current tweets 😀
But yes, joking aside, that’s an extreme amount of information in the hands of…you guessed it: the US Government.
now i will have to tweet out “F*** Yo Couch! @LibraryCongress” just for the hell of it 🙂
This is just sick! The government eavesdropping on the world’s conversation??