Everything you tweet will soon last forever...

[Edwin]

The British Library is launching a project a bit like the Internet Archive, but for ephemeral material such as tweets, Facebook updates etc. Once it's in full swing, every public social media update will be stored forever.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/05/british-library-archive-webpages-tweets

 

[websaway]

It's a good thing for promoting online etiquette.

 

[anthony]

Quote "Access to the material will be offered in reading rooms at each of the six libraries."

What a pointless waste of time & money then!

 

[newguy]

Quote "Access to the material will be offered in reading rooms at each of the six libraries."

What a pointless waste of time & money then!

"Where are you off to dear? Your dinner's nearly ready."

"Just down to the British Library to read some racist tweets".

 

[Edwin]

Quote "Access to the material will be offered in reading rooms at each of the six libraries."

What a pointless waste of time & money then!

I presume they mean there will be 1+ PCs set aside in the reading rooms with their browser homepages set/hard coded to the database search box. I can't imagine they'd keep access to this off-web, at least in the medium-longer term.

 

[monaghan]

If this was announced a few days ago, it would have made sense, but what is the point? Surely if anyone has something to say that they want archived it is easy enough to publish on an existing website.

I only have a few "friends" on twitter & fb but the signal to noise ratio is low, imagine the noise level looking through all tweets & fb posts, you'll never find anything

 

[mat]

Surely there is, or will be some kind of way to opt out?

You can do this simply on Internet Archive with robots.txt

 

[Aiden Roberts]

Be a good resource for the police and security services, Big Brother is coming!

 

[Murray]

Big Brother is coming!

Already here sadly isn't it.

You know the school near me, kids actually pay for their lunches with their finger prints.. + it has iron fences, gates, security codes etc. More like a prison than a school.

You can tell what the future is going to be like.

 

[Aiden Roberts]

You know the school near me, kids actually pay for their lunches with their finger prints.

Thinking about it so do mine

Is was only a matter of time before they got hold of everything you do online without a warrant. Won't be long before BT are recording every conversation for the telephone museum.

Rob

 

[Aiden Roberts]

Even worse imagine if it gets hacked!

 

[Blossom]

Even worse imagine if it gets hacked!

Why? It's all public information anyway.

Oh, unless you mean it's used to fake a load of stuff.

 

[Aiden Roberts]

I'm sure the cyber criminals will find it helpful in some shape or form!

 

[Jamie101]

Isn't there already some sites that saves tweets that people have made?

Always amazed with what people put up online to be honest. If an employer looked at most of my friends Facebook pages and stuff there's no way that they'd give them the job.

 

[sdsinc]

Welcome to a new world, where nothing is forgotten...

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2011/12/14-digital-storage-villasenor

 

[bulkcorn]

Scaryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

 

[Pred]

many blogs and news sources reporting this

agreed big brother under guise of storing history
+ we're paying for it

http://news.sky.com/story/1074566/e-library-to-store-a-billion-uk-web-pages

The British Library archive will cover 4.8 million websites ending .co.uk and may go on to include social networks but not emails.
The process will start using UK websites that end in .co.uk

do you think the numbskulls on nominet's board realise the importance of .co.uk now and the fact that when something is not broke you don't fix it
the BIGGEST BRAND in the UK is not harrods, marks and spencer, or the flippin 'royals'
they can all disappear overnight, like many of the big chains are doing
it's .co.uk