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Question: I read an article last week on CNNMoney.com that said all tweets will now be preserved in the Library of Congress. What does that mean for my account?
Answer: Whenever I give a presentation on social media, I always emphasize that anything you post online is never truly erased and that couldn’t be more important with the recent news about Twitter.
Last week, the U.S. Library of Congress announced that Twitter donated its digital archive and all public tweets dating back to March 21, 2006 will be available.
According to Twitter’s official blog, co-founder Biz Stone wrote, “It is our pleasure to donate access to the entire archive of public Tweets to the Library of Congress for preservation and research. It’s very exciting that tweets are becoming part of history. It should be noted that there are some specifics regarding this arrangement. Only after a six-month delay can the Tweets be used for internal library use, for non-commercial research, public display by the library itself, and preservation.”
If your account is open then your tweets will appear on the public timeline. You have the option to protect your tweets under your account settings. With a protected account, you will need to approve people who follow you and only your followers will see what you write.
Google also recently announced a new service called Google Replay which will soon let users search the Twitter archive using the “Updates” option via Google search. This is a way for users “to revisit tweets related to historic events,” according to Stone. To see an example using REALTOR® as the search term, click here.
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Meghan Tinkham is the Community Manager at the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors®. Follow her on Twitter @PAR_Meg. |
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