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US Library of Congress: All ur (public) tweet are belong to us, too. Kind of. | Todas sus tuít (pública) son nos pertenecen también. Más o menos.

Alberto Saldamando
Last updated: April 14, 2010 9:53 PM
By Alberto Saldamando
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Do you use microblogging service Twitter? Most likely you do. Are all of you fans of it? Most probably. Do you keep an accurate account of how many messages do you post? I guess not. Do you protect your messages? It depends on you, but most people don’t mind about having their account public. However, an announcement from the biggest library in the world may make you change your mind about your Twitter habits.

Earlier today, the US Library of Congress posted on its site the following annoucement: all your Twitter public messages will be stored on its humongous database of 167 terabytes (and it keeps growing). 

Currently, most people in cyberspace are getting used to receive the latest news about Hollywood celebrities, sports stars and sites of personal interests. Users post what’s on their mind to share their messages with collegues, friends, and relatives, while others promote their businesses. According to the post on the Twitter blog, “only after a six-month delay can the Tweets will be used for internal library use, for non-commercial research, public display by the library itself, and preservation.” Is this “preservation and research” of  Twitter messages going to make you change your mind about your tweets? It seems like we the users of Tweeter have some time to get rid of messages we don’t want to be digitally stored forever. Is that an option though? Many of your messages can already be at Google and Bing, too. Google has recently launched its Replay service which ” lets you relive a real time search from specific moments in time.”

Sources: How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive [https://www.loc.gov/tweet/how-tweet-it-is.html], Tweet Preservation [https://blog.twitter.com/2010/04/tweet-preservation.html], Replay it: Google search across the Twitter archive [https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/replay-it-google-search-across-twitter.html].

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¿Utilizan el servicio de microblogging Twitter? Más probable que sí lo hagan. ¿Son todos ustedes fanáticos de aquel? Seguramente. ¿Mantienen un registro exacto de cuántos mensajes publican? Supongo que no. ¿Protegen sus mensajes? Depende de ustedes, pero a la mayoría de la gente no le importa tener su cuenta pública. Sin embargo, un anuncio de la biblioteca más grande en el mundo puede hacer que ustedes cambien de opinión acerca de sus hábitos de Twitter.

Temprano hoy, la Biblioteca del Congreso de los EE.UU. publicó en su sitio el siguiente anuncio: todos sus mensajes públicos de Twitter se almacenarán en su base de datos gigantesco de 167 terabytes (y sigue creciendo).

En la actualidad, la mayoría de la gente en el ciberespacio se está acostumbrando a recibir las últimas noticias sobre las celebridades de Hollywood, estrellas del deporte y sitios de intereses personales via Twitter. Los usuarios publican lo que piensan para compartirlos con colegas, amigos y familiares, mientras que otros promueven sus negocios. De acuerdo con el mensaje en el blog de Twitter, “sólo después de un retraso de seis meses los tweets (tuíts) serán utilizados para uso interno de la biblioteca, para la investigación no comercial, la exhibición pública por la propia biblioteca, y la preservación. ¿Les va a hacer cambiar de opinión acerca de sus tweets (tuíts) esta “preservación e investigación” de Twitter? Parece que nosotros los usuarios de Twitter tenemos algo de tiempo para deshacernos de los mensajes que no queremos que estén almacenados digitalmente para siempre. Pero, ¿es aún una opción? Varios de sus mensajes ya pueden estar en Google y Bing también. Google recientemente ha lanzado su servicio Replay que “les permite revivir una búsqueda en tiempo real de momentos específicos a tiempo”.

Fuentes: How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive [https://www.loc.gov/tweet/how-tweet-it-is.html], Tweet Preservation [https://blog.twitter.com/2010/04/tweet-preservation.html], Replay it: Google search across the Twitter archive [https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/replay-it-google-search-across-twitter.html].

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