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**smerve**

Tuesday 6 December 2011.

Tweets, emails and other electronic communications can be considered "government documents" and must be preserved. The National Archives handles official government materials, while the Library of Congress' mandate is to deal with anything that may have long-term historical interest.

But how much digital information are we talking about? How about all of the tweets from Twitter's archives?

"We have an agreement with Twitter where they have a bunch of servers with their historic archive of tweets, everything that was sent out and declared to be public," Lefurgy said. The archives don't contain tweets that users have protected, but everything else — billions and billions of tweets — are there."

http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/06/library-of-congress-to-receive-entire-twitter-archive/

http://legitreviews.com/news/11979/

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 17093 12-07-2011 07:01 AM

glad i never tweeted!

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 65599 12-07-2011 07:02 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

glad i never tweeted!

WTF is a tweet? Lmao

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 65912 12-07-2011 07:04 AM

what a bunch of twits

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 58673 12-07-2011 07:12 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
glad i never tweeted!

WTF is a tweet?

You're a backward internet user obviously.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 17093 12-07-2011 07:13 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
glad i never tweeted!

WTF is a tweet?

something stupid the kids are into these days.

Pi Infinity User ID: 3.14159265 12-07-2011 07:17 AM

So let me get this straight. People are concerned that statements that they PUBLICLY made may be seen by the government?

Lmao

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 65912 12-07-2011 07:19 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
LoP Guest Wrote:
glad i never tweeted!

WTF is a tweet?

You're a backward internet user obviously.

No, those of us who have never tweeted and have never "facebooked" or done any of that retarded crap are actually AHEAD of the curve.

But you feel free to think we're "behind" the curve if that makes you feel better.

Twitter is for TWITS and Facebook is for TWATS.

**Ray-Ray Debarge** lop guest User ID: 65234 12-07-2011 07:20 AM

So the Tosh.0 funnies will be preserved for Posterity's sake. What will future historians think about "tongue punching your mom's fart box" for instance?

Classic!

Jptdknpa

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 65912 12-07-2011 07:21 AM

Pi Wrote:

So let me get this straight. People are concerned that statements that they PUBLICLY made may be seen by the government?

Not me. I fully realize the spooks can - and may be - reading every post I make online. Even here, where I'm a "guest" and I'm "anonymous" (ROFLMAO yah right)

Whatever. I just don't do tweets and facebook bullshit. It's retarded. Who the hell cares when I'm taking a shit and how many kernels of corn I saw before I flushed it down?

The human species are regressing, and twitter and facebook are assisting in the decline. IMO obv.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 66622 12-07-2011 08:59 AM

seems quite ridiculous to bother with tweets

waste of time and finances

should they not be doing other things instead?

**sia**

smerve Wrote:

Tuesday 6 December 2011.

Tweets, emails and other electronic communications can be considered "government documents" and must be preserved. The National Archives handles official government materials, while the Library of Congress' mandate is to deal with anything that may have long-term historical interest.

But how much digital information are we talking about? How about all of the tweets from Twitter's archives?

"We have an agreement with Twitter where they have a bunch of servers with their historic archive of tweets, everything that was sent out and declared to be public," Lefurgy said. The archives don't contain tweets that users have protected, but everything else — billions and billions of tweets — are there."

http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/06/library-of-congress-to-receive-entire-twitter-archive/

http://legitreviews.com/news/11979/

how f*cking ridiculous, wait until the people rebel against the web in 50 years. bleh, humans.