Twitter as History: Library of Congress Will Save Tweets

Hmm maybe we should put more thought into our tweets…Library of Congress Will Save Tweets as History

Knowing that the Library of Congress will be preserving Twitter messages for posterity could subtly alter the habits of some users, said Paul Saffo, a visiting scholar at Stanford who specializes in technology’s effect on society.

“After all,” Mr. Saffo said, “your indiscretions will be able to be seen by generations and generations of graduate students.”

People thinking before they post on Twitter: now that would be historic indeed.

Read the article here: nytimes.com



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