He may not have known it at the time, but senior Kyle Eaton has a new follower on Twitter: the Library of Congress.
Last month, the announcement was made that the Library of Congress would be storing all public tweets, dating back to March of 2006.
Eaton, also known as, Tweetin_Eaton, is enthusiastic about this development.
“I think it’s actually kind of cool,” Eaton said. “Because not only are mine, but like everybody else’s so it’s recording history.”
According to an article in the New York Times, the collaboration was initiated by the Library of Congress, who recognized the growing social importance of Twitter both in present day as well as the future.
The article approximates that the Library of Congress will be storing an average of 55 million messages per day.
Eaton has a public Twitter page, and said he “tweets” around four times per day.
He said the content of his tweets in nothing to cause any concern about them being stored.
“You’re posting something on the internet,” Eaton said. “So you should be prepared for anyone to have access to it.”
Senior Bill Getschman, also known as BGetsch25, made his Twitter private.
Getschman said he would be okay with his tweets being stored if his profile were public.
“I wouldn’t care because I don’t really have any substance to my tweets,” Getschman said.
Hypothetically though, Getschman said he would be more wary.
“If I did, I’d be kind of offended I guess,” Getschman said.
Senior Gigi Fraser, or gfraser7, said she is a little bit put off by this.
“I have a public Twitter,” Fraser said. “And I think it’s an invasion of privacy that the Library of Congress takes it and stores it.”
Rather than leaving her tweets open to the public, Fraser is taking action.
“I’m changing my Twitter to private,” Fraser said.
