Treasuring Twitter: The Why and How of Preserving Tweets By Marieke Guy

...Tweets, text-based posts of up to 140 characters, were initially seen as ephemera. Nobody needs to keep a record of what people have been having for dinner or what book they are reading. However, when those tweets become useful in a way that we didn't initially anticipate, then maybe there is a case for their preservation...

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Contents

Won't tweets be there forever?

Why Preserve Tweets? 

What do you preserve and how?

Future gazing

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