donderdag 15 april 2010

I Twitter, you Twitter, everybody Twitter?

The Libabry of Congress - the worlds largest library - will digitally store every public tweet (when you send a message to Twitter, it is called a tweet) since the foundation of the site. This means you can find the entire archive of every public tweet ever posted on Twitter. From disasters to elections to other global events. Personal and direct messages will not be included. By searching on date, subject or even country, you can find anything ever posted on Twitter. Please note that Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets everyday, so that's a lot of tweets to archive!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/apr/14/twitter-library-of-congress

I really do not understand why people want to archive tweets. What's the use of putting millions and millions of announcements or message in one big digital archive? With Google, Yahoo and other big digital searching machines, is it really necessary to create another one with information you can also find somewhere else. Is a tweet about the election of Obama more interesting and/or important than a news item found with Google? I want to go back to the time where you could walk into a library and search in books (you know, those things made of paper, with text in them. You can even turn pages!) or old newspapers to find information. Who really needs Iphones or Ipads, away with them! Let’s use our hands, not to scroll down, but to turn pages!
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  1. Marijn Meulenbeld15 april 2010 om 11:11

    Ipads are awesome! How can you not like them! :O
    But I do agree with you on saving the tweets.. what's the use? Only bad can come from this, people will start nagging about privacy violation etc.. I say, ban the saving! Who's with me?

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  2. Bart van den Bosch19 april 2010 om 00:19

    iPads are overrated and overly expensive.
    Isn't it "everybody Twitters", seeing as it's a real word now?

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  3. CVB19 april 2010 om 00:50

    I like the topic you choose. I also think you wrote a very interesting summary and opinion.

    I totally agree to this btw:
    "I want to go back to the time where you could walk into a library and search in books (you know, those things made of paper, with text in them. You can even turn pages!) or old newspapers to find information."

    Books are better than computers and all if you ask me. =]

    xX

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