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I'm wondering what's going to happen to the massive public record of tweets if Twitter as a company does indeed implode. Thousands of tweets are referenced in news articles and blog posts via links to Twitter. Are all of them going to evaporate from the web at once? It would probably turn out to be the biggest case of link rot in history.

It would also be pretty interesting 10 years from now if we characterized this time to people growing up as "there was once this huge social networking platform called Twitter at one point, but you can't post anything there anymore, only browse through this public-service archive."

>>nonbir+(OP)
Twitter has been rotting pretty steadily since he initially stated his intent to buy it. Many, many accounts I follow are gone, their tweets deleted.

And now all the tweets referencing mastodon are gone too.

>>nonbir+(OP)
I don't have a source right now but I did read some years ago that US govt (NSA?) does save every single tweet in its archive.