Google Offers Twitter Replay -- InformationWeek

• Google Offers Twitter Replay -- InformationWeek

  tags: Twitter, Archived

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Google is providing both a time-line chart that displays the volume of tweets on previous days and the ability to replay these past tweets.

Google product manager Dylan Casey says "Tweets and other short-form updates create a history of commentary that can provide valuable insights into what's happened and how people have reacted. We want to give you a way to search across this information and make it useful."

The Library of Congress is going to archive all the tweets that have been posted since Twitter began in March 2006. The amount of tweets since then is in the billions. That is a LOT of data. When people signed on to twitter did they know that their tweets were going to be archived at the Library of Congress? Is there an option to opt out? What if I like to tweet but I don't want my posts to be search-able by Google?

Its fascinating to be able to look back at events like Obama being president and reading his tweet. Obama used twitter when he was inaugurated! Twitter updates can now be cited as sources in upcoming reports.

I think that as long as Twitter is clear on their privacy regulations and make it obvious to users that their data will be public then its a great idea. So many times Facebook will make updates to their privacy statement and it confuses the users. It should be clear and concise. There should always be an option to opt out of a new option if you do not want to participate.

Can you imagine your great-grandkids doing research on a topic and discovering a tweet that you had posted in regards to it?