Library of Congress

CTL-E-4239 · Institution · other · 1800-present

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The U.S. national library; received Twitter's 2010 gift of the full public-tweet database and announced the shift to selective tweet acquisition effective January 1, 2018.

Notes

RELP97 supporting entity: edge endpoint for CTL-E-0847 held_at. DISTINCT from canonical CTL-E-0634 (National Recording Registry Chicago entries); do not merge.

Referenced by

Library of Congress Twitter archive goes selective — held at → this record

Sources

phys.org, 'US Library of Congress backtracks on complete Twitter archive' (2017-12-27). https://phys.org/news/2017-12-library-congress-backtracks-twitter-archive.amp
FedScoop, 'The Library of Congress has decided to stop collecting all your tweets'. https://fedscoop.com/library-congress-decided-stop-collecting-tweets/800

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