Thursday, December 15, 2011

DIGITAL REALLY DOES MEAN FOREVER WITH TWITTER

Notes by: Theresa Payton, Fortalice, LLC. Material also covered in WBTV's segment Protecting Your Cyberturf featuring Kristen Miranda and Theresa Payton.
DIGITAL REALLY DOES MEAN FOREVER WITH TWITTER

It’s hard to remember life before Twitter but there may come a day when Twitter is not the “it” thing anymore. But did you know that your tweets will have an afterlife? That’s right, the U.S. Government is collecting every single tweet, from comments about the first cup of java on a Monday morning to Tsunami information to the protests in Egypt, every tweet has been collected for preservation.

We say this all the time - digital is forever but that saying has gone to a new level! The Library of Congress collects information that might be vital to our Nation’s history. That mission extends to digital data but they usually don’t collect everything digital and hold it forever...except for tweets! Cyber expert, Theresa Payton, explains.

WHAT WE KNOW:
The Library of Congress said they are not collecting “private” tweets which might mean the direct message function but they are collecting all tweets, regardless of topic, and storing them forever.

We told you previously the National Archives was collecting tweets and storing them but their focus was much more limited.

So the question is, what will the future do with the tweets of today? Care to retract any tweets?

WORD OF THE WEEK:
NETCATION: It’s a mashup of two words: internet and vacation. We all probably need more of this, a vacation from not just work but the internet too. So you might see someone on Facebook or Twitter say, “Sorry I haven’t posted in a while, I took a netcation”.

RESOURCES:
Twitter’s privacy policy:
https://twitter.com/privacy/previous/version_2

To share ideas and comments about Twitter being archived and other topics go to this page at the National Archives website: http://www.archives.gov/social-media/policies/idea-forum-comment-policy.html

See what the Library of Congress said on Twitter at:
http://twitter.com/#!/librarycongress/status/12169442690

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