Does anyone honestly care? I can’t think of anything less important than any tweet that is more than a few days old. Literally trillions of tweets could be deleted and no one would care
Tweets are embedded in tons of news articles as primary sources, and often require the image to make sense. Like it or not, Twitter is a primary source for a significant proportion of history worldwide, as it contains a lot of first-person reporting and evidence.
Twitter's not just about documenting what you had for breakfast; it's also about documenting civil war atrocities.
I would care. There’s an active community of artists and developers who regularly post images of their work, as well as educational material. I can also conceive of other such communities that I’m not aware of whose members would feel the same. Losing years of those resources would be a great loss.
Twitter really has a PR issue. So many people still see it as the place to post “ate a sandwich for lunch today”, when it’s so much bigger than that.
Twitter's not just about documenting what you had for breakfast; it's also about documenting civil war atrocities.