Last week, we learned that the Library of Congress was archiving every single public Tweet since the dawn of Twitter in their National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.
The Twitterverse, while largely pleased that its words were going to be immortalized by the U.S. Government, were also quite concerned with the Big Brotheriness of the data grab. Thankfully, a post on the official Twitter blog and, Friday’s American Prospect Q&A with the NDIIPP’s director Martha Anderson have answered some of those questions. What does Twitter Preservation mean to me?… and can I still delete those incriminating drunken Tweets?
Full story: Your LOC Twitter Archiving Questions Answered – New York News