Someday the Cheeto's tweetstorms will be in the Library of Congress

[milestogo]

preserved alongside the Gettysburg Address for future generations who wish to study presidential history.

[spanone]

1. historians will be mystified as to the collective brain fart of americans who elected the fool

[dalton99a]

2. If there is funding to sort out the mess

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/can-twitter-fit-inside-the-library-of-congress/494339/

No engineers are permanently assigned to the project. So, for now, staff regularly dump unprocessed tweets into a server—the digital equivalent of throwing a bunch of paperclipped manuscripts into a chest and giving it a good shake. There’s certainly no way to search through all that they’ve collected. And, in the meantime, the value of a vast tweet cache has soared. This frustrates researchers, who had hoped to mine the archive for insights about language and society—and who currently have to pay heavy licensing fees to Twitter for its data.

The library has been handed a Gordian knot, an engineering, cyber, and policy challenge that grows bigger and more complicated every day—about 500 million tweets a day more complicated. Will the library finally untie it—or give in and cut the thing off?

[nolabear]

3. As it should be. It should be taught in every civics class.

If we survive this it's going to be a fine cautionary tale and a source of wonder for the next generations.

[0rganism]

11. +1

transformative point in the story of our nation
this will be studied by scholars of many disciplines and nationalities for centuries

[caroldansen]

4. Yes. And also a perfect lesson on how not to behave as president.

[liberalmuse]

5. How far we have fallen.

God I miss our last sane President. I woke up thinking about President Obama and all the great things he's accomplished, his grace and his eloquence. Then I opened my fucking iPad to HuffPo.

[KentuckyWoman]

8. Whistleass looks sane by comparison.

That's saying something

[liberalmuse]

9. "There is no bottom"

Reminding myself about the Republican barrel years ago after fruitlessly hoping W was as bad as it was going to get.

[caroldansen]

6. Yes. History is being written as we speak. Can't wait to read the end of the book, which may be lot

Sooner than we think, at this rate.

[KentuckyWoman]

7. That made me laugh.

Tweets from the Twit.

Baaahahahha

[liberalmuse]

10. Trump's biography will be called...

"T_witless"

[randome]

12. "This is your brain on 'stupid'."

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