Cementing Twitter's iconic status, the Library of Congress has announced that it will store all the "tweets" since the messaging service's inception in 2006, according to an Associated Press article published April 14, 2010.
While this announcement leaves some questioning the validity, let alone the wisdom of storing thousands of mundane tweets about what people had for breakfast, etc., there is little argument that Twitter's messages regarding historic events will provide valuable documentation of the real-time impact of such happenings.
Others think that a thorough evaluation of the dynamic and continuing effect Twitter and its users have on shaping the way society communicates is reason enough to include every tweet. It certainly could effect the way people tweet.
After all, if you're going to be immortalized, what would you tweet?
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Immortalized with my tweets, how exciting!
ReplyDeleteI guess I'll tweet my normal stuff, things like what's on the BBQ, dinner, what the neighbors are doing, college stuff, Apple junk, skiing updates, golf scores, backpacking trips, music info, odd mathematics formulas and many RTs and DMs. I wonder who real read all the billions of tweets in a 100 years from now. Maybe they'll be data mining.