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13.3.3 Archiving Twitter
Twitter’s terms of use give the company the right to archive all public Tweets, and in April
2010 Twitter and the Library of Congress announced that a digital archive would be cre-
ated of all public Tweets sent since the launch of the site (Campbell and Dulabahn 2010). As
the vast majority of what a user does on the site is considered to be in public (some private
account/prole information and deleted Tweets are not considered public), this initially
consisted of a data le of approximately 5 terabytes. In addition, a process for the library
to receive incremental updates has a