Tweets Archived In Library Of Congress Will Only Be Accessible By "Known Researchers"

Anyone who thought they could sneak around Twitter’s increasingly restricted API and get at historical and real-time tweets through the archive in the Library of Congress had better think again. While the Library is making a serious effort to index all tweets since 2006, they’re only opening up this archive to “known researchers” who have the approval of the Library to access the information.

Audry Watters of O’Rielly Radar took a close look at the Library of Congress’ Twitter archive one year after it had partnered with Twitter to begin collecting the data.

The Library has access to Twitter’s historical and real-time tweets through Twitter’s data partner Gnip, who also sells access to the Twitter firehose to interested developers and publishers.

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