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marmar

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Sun Feb 17, 2013, 09:47 PM Feb 2013

Library of Congress Storing All Your Tweets [View all]




Russia Today
Published on Feb 15, 2013

It's part of the social media landscape that has revolutionized the way communicate. Twitter allows users to broadcast their thoughts 140 characters at a time. From the mundane to the historic, the Library of Congress has announced they have archived over 170 billion tweets. RT Correspondent Liz Wahl reports on why the Library doesn't know what to do with this enormous database and the possible privacy concerns.


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