Comments on: Library of Congress Acquires Entire Twitter Archive

By: Will researchers ever be able to wrap their arms around Twitter? | Digital Trends

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 02:47:14 +0000

[...] according to a recent white paper.) It’s ambitious: the Library of Congress started work in 2010, and is only now moving towards granting researchers access — public access is a long way [...]

By: Twitter CEO says tweet archiving to come end of this year (hopefully) | Digital Trends

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:02:09 +0000

[...] organization that’s taking archiving tweets into its own hands is the Library of Congress, which has been working since 2010 on conserving every single public tweet that’s existed. It [...]

By: paulrharvey3

paulrharvey3 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:27:45 +0000

You can go back a bit, but not all the way to the start. Twitter has a limit on how far back you can go.

By: dang

dang — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:24:38 +0000

I have a More link on the bottom of my tweets. Even though it's clunky, you should be able to eventually load all your tweets that way.I haven't used the twitter API, but I bet you could probably get them that way as well.

By: paulrharvey3

paulrharvey3 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:20:30 +0000

I can't even access my oldest posts. How can they?

By: dang

dang — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:03:11 +0000

Unfortunately your tweets aren't private. Any one can see your tweets. It's publicly available.

By: jeeperjonny

jeeperjonny — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:40:53 +0000

This is outrageous, invasive and unecessary. Should I give the LOC every letter I ever wrote and my dental records also? How about the size of my penis? That, I'm proud of and willing to share. Any site that is going to keep your private communications should tell you upfront and not go back years ago and file what you thought was between you and another person. Hey, LOC I'm 7.5″ by the way. Just want you to have every frigging piece of information on me.