[Chaebixi]

I think you're misunderstanding the context.

IIRC, this isn't a collection of all tweets, etc (though the Library of Congress is already doing that), it's a curated collection of tweets, many important enough that some journalist somewhere bothered to write an article about them.

[greglindahl]

The Library of Congress Twitter firehose archive never got off the ground: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/can-t...

[nl]

And it's too bad, now that Twitter is actually affecting history.

[greglindahl]

Yeah, it's a shame! The Internet Archive does some twitter archiving -- I helped a little by finding a listing of government social media accounts -- but it's not enough.

[nl]

Twitter's policies make it worse, since if you have firehose access you are required to delete tweets when the account deletes them.

This is a well known tactic of many bot-net operators, and has made investigating them much harder.

Even worse, Twitter went and deleted the Russian accounts (and tweets) which Facebook had identified for them...

[greglindahl]

That makes it bad for the Library of Congress, yes, but they're already not succeeding.

IA doesn't have firehose access.