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Library of Congress archiving your everyday tweets!?

@Bring it on (Sure why not) 2 11.76%
 
@WTF (No this is hurting my privacy) 12 70.59%
 
@DontAskDontTell (Dont care at all) 3 17.65%
 
Total:17

Why?



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Why do they need to do this? The American government is becoming extremely nosy now, it's just ridiculous.



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Well I believe it is because they want to use the data to see how people react/reacted to certain events in the world and how we tend to behave when for example a flu spreads, but I dunno :P



Maybe it's for history books in 100 years since nobody writes letters anymore



Signalstar said:
Why?

Haha LOL I wanted to post exactly this!

 

Or NeoGAF style: First post nails it.



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Yet again my tax money going to waste.

Archive art, literature, cinema, not some chick's tweet that she's in line for Twighlight.



the history book of congress is going to be filled with "Lulz , xD and Kamiya talking about shit"



Future generations will look back and think we were a bunch of morons.



why do people care

why would anyone expect privacy on twitter, the website's entire purpose is to make your statements as not-private as possible