01-09-2021, 02:27 AM
rgG wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
So when future historians want to write about Trump, how do they get these tweets? Its the primary record of his presidency. .They are not in the public domain and never will be. Links to his tweets embedded in thousands of existing articles are now dead. This is nerdy me thinking out loud, not that important.
Isn’t there a record in the library of Congress of all tweets, maybe I am dreaming?
I thought I recalled something about that a long time ago. I am probably imagining it.
It's more convoluted than I thought. The LOC stopped cataloguing all of Twitter a few years ago.
The White House is responsible for preserving the president's records, and it's unclear how they have mamaged the tweets from his personal account, which is most of them.
It's also not clear if they kept the deleted ones, which are of course the most egregious. .
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/25/772325133...akes-shape