A tiny percentage of accounts are protected but most of these tweets are created with the intent that they will be publicly available. Over the years, tweets have become part of significant global events around the world—from historic elections to devastating disasters.
It is our pleasure to donate access to the entire archive of public Tweets to the Library of Congress for preservation and research. It's very exciting that tweets are becoming part of history. There will be restrictions of the use of tweets. According to the Twitter blog, there will be a six month delay before tweets are available for internal library use, for non-commercial research, public display by the library itself and preservation.
Personal, direct messages on Twitter will not be archived. Less dramatic but probably more useful was the announcement by Google today of a new tool that allows users to search, select and "replay" what people said on Twitter. Presently the service only extends back to February but Google says soon it will reach all the way back to Twitter's foundation. Twitter is opening up its full tweet archive to academic researchers for free New, 1 comment.
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