Obama Admin Declares ALL TWEETS As ‘Government Documents’ and Will Store Them All In Federal Archive

Obama Admin Declares ALL TWEETS As ‘Government Documents’ and Will Store Them All In Federal Archive: "“We’re basically in the same situation as the National Archives, only on a much larger scale,” said Bill Lefurgy, digital initiatives program manager at the Library of Congress national digital information infrastructure and preservation program. “We tend to have a much larger perspective in terms of what we collect.” He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy MorrisTuesday morning to talk about the library’s digital mission.

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.”"

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