Anybody that knows me will tell you that I am addicted to Twitter! My eyes are always glued to my BlackBerry as my fingers tap out tweet after tweet everyday.
(I'm blogging from my BlackBerry as we speak.)
I'll be the first to admit that I can get a little reckless on Twitter. Everyone of your friends and followers is kind of like family and you share your everyday lives with them. You share photos, music, and network among so many other things. So when I heard that the Library of Congress was going to archive everyone's tweets from mid 2006 until now and from now on, I was very defensive. To me it seemed like an invasion of privacy, but after reading an article in the New York times ( http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/technology/15twitter.xml ) I've had a change of heart.
All tweets, except for direct/private messages, are already public on the web anyway. Even if you have your Twitter profile private, everyone has followers that are strangers to them. So, what's the difference?
If you're lucky enough to become a person that is successful and makes an impact in this world, your tweets can be accessed and used for educational purposes. Hey, you may even inspire someone else to be just as successful.
I plan on being a part of history so I embrace the decision to archive tweets in the Library of Congress.
The question is, will my tweets change? Probably not! Lol!
What are your thoughts on this? Will this decision change the way you tweet? Will you delete your Twitter profile?
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