Twitter just donated all your tweets to the Government, and brags about it!
How exciting. Twitter just announced it’s “their pleasure” to donate access to the entire archive of public Tweets to the Library of Congress for preservation and research. Somehow, Twitter finds this “very exciting.” I find it very disturbing.
The open exchange of information can have a positive global impact. This is something we firmly believe and it has driven many of our decisions regarding openness. Today we are also excited to share the news that Google has created a wonderful new way to revisit tweets related to historic events. They call it Google Replay because it lets you relive a real time search from specific moments in time.
Google Replay currently only goes back a few months but eventually it will reach back to the very first Tweets every created. Feel free to give Replay a try—if you want to understand the popular contemporaneous reaction to the retirement of Justice Stevens, the health care bill, or Justin Bieber’s latest album, you can virtually time travel and replay the Tweets. The future seems bright for innovation on the Twitter platform and so it seems, does the past!
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