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US Library of Congress backtracks on complete Twitter archive

by Rob Lever Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States  — The US Library of Congress has scaled back plans to archive every message ever sent on Twitter, sparking debate on the importance of social media in historical records. The library, which is believed to be the largest in the world with a mission of preserving important national and global cultural records, announced this week it would stop collecting the entire Twittersphere’s tweets from January 2018. “Effective […]