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16 April 2009

Archiving Twitter

Concern is expressed at the shallowness of Twitter’s archive and by extension the implications for record keeping arising out of interaction on 3rd party sites.

But it’s not that hard, is it?

We have machine-readable data on public-facing websites and, with Twitter, an API. There’s nothing stopping us from periodically and programmatically accessing this data and adding it to our existing document management and record keeping systems. The data is already structured and ready for re-use.

Some complexity is added when you need to consider not just your own published data but responses, conversations and context.

The finesse would be to build a simple admin interface for Council officers to register feeds, hashtags and other searches as required along with an optional date range – for consultation periods or other time-limited events.

Or, build a Pipe that aggregrates and rebroadcasts your information to the cloud in an endless loop.

— b3rn   recordkeeping, twitter   Apr 16, 09:24 PM   #

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