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http://cac.ophony.org/2010/04/16/archiving-tweets/

I was brought about reading this article for my history class and thought it was very interesting because historians are thinking of archiving every single tweet that is put out for the public to see. Now some may say this sounds ridiculous because there are a number of things people say that are useless. However, if this goes through there will be a large library with tweets stating everyones thoughts,actions and feelings. Though I am not a member of the twitter community, I think that archiving these tweets may in fact some way serve its purpose, whether it be that people in the future can tap into our thoughts that will be history or that perhaps someone tweeting now is saying something that will make them famous when they are older or well after they have passed. With this developing idea there also comes a question of privacy. What happens to those who do not want their thoughts saved for people to see in the future? Does this in fact go against privacy policy? In my opinion I believe that once something on a public service site is opened by an individual it is no longer as private as one may think. You may be able to make it private but for that mili second, who knows your tweet could be saved. It is difficult to establish how people will react to this situation.  It is not  yet determined whether people have a choice or not whether they can have their tweets saved but we will just have to see when the uproar begins.