On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote:
Twitter's history is stored and aggressively mined...
Twitter's full archive is not available for mining. I believe that there is only one organization - other than Twitter - that has access to a full feed. They've been on the receiving end of the fire hose since last November, IIRC. (I talked to one of the founders at the 140TC conference in LA in September.) I brought up the idea of an "internet archive" for tweets during a 'research conversation' two weeks ago. There was push-back from some faculty ... based on the idea that our 'conversations' have always been ephemeral. Me? I'd like to have full-feed so that we can track politicos and business rhetoric. Kathy @kegill PS I've lurked here for a little while. I teach in the master of communication digital media program at the University of Washington - as well as undergrad digital journalism. My limited research efforts at the moment are focused on Twitter's use by organizations as part of the communication mix.