Library of Congress To Receive Entire Twitter Archive 106
An anonymous reader writes "The Library of Congress and Twitter have signed an agreement that will see an archive of every public Tweet ever sent handed over to the library's repository of historical documents. 'We have an agreement with Twitter where they have a bunch of servers with their historic archive of tweets, everything that was sent out and declared to be public,' said Bill Lefurgy, the digital initiatives program manager at the library's national digital information infrastructure and preservation program. Researchers will be able to look at the Twitter archive as a complete set of data, which they could then data-mine for interesting information."
Oh great... (Score:5, Funny)
Pooping (Score:5, Funny)
Results are in (Score:5, Funny)
Researchers will be able to look at the Twitter archive as a complete set of data, which they could then data-mine for interesting information.
Nothing interesting was found.
This begs one simple question (Score:3, Funny)
Re:yes, but... (Score:4, Funny)
Hopefully they compress it down to 1 bit.
Re:How big? (Score:5, Funny)
well now that the Twitter archive is part of the Library of Congress it can only reflected as a portion of the Library of Congress.
Re:yes, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Hopefully they compress it down to 1 bit.
And the value of that bit is "0".