The key point from Twitter's blog post is: "Only after a six-month delay can the Tweets will [sic] be used for internal library use, *for non-commercial research*, public display by the library itself, and preservation." --- Alexander Leavitt Research Specialist, Convergence Culture Consortium Comparative Media Studies, MIT http://doalchemy.org Twitter: @alexleavitt On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Michael Zimmer <zimmerm@uwm.edu> wrote:
For those who haven't already seen the news, the Library of Congress announced today that they are acquiring the entire archive of public Twitter activity since March 2006:
Library of Congress Announcement: How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive http://www.loc.gov/tweet/how-tweet-it-is.html
Twitter Announcement: Tweet Preservation http://blog.twitter.com/2010/04/tweet-preservation.html
And my initial probe of various open concerns: Open Questions about Library of Congress Archiving Twitter Streams
http://michaelzimmer.org/2010/04/14/open-questions-about-library-of-congress...
-- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Associate, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org
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