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Why the Library of Congress cares about archiving our tweets
- DrSprout 16y agoI hope they do elect to store the actual URLs when URL shorteners are involved. Really, though it would eat a hole in the URL shorteners' business, I really think sites like Twitter should be dynamically 'fixing' those links before inserting them into the database.
- astine 16y agoFor those interested, I asked around and it looks like the entire Twitter collection is only going to be 5TB worth.
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- ErrantX 16y agoI calculate the tweets data must be around 3.5TB so that figure seems about right (if you throw in user and times tamp data)
- sjs382 16y agoI've been curious. Does this include the tweets of "private" accounts?
- clistctrl 16y agoThe article mentioned that only public accounts would be included.