permanence in the internet age – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the URochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:40:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 This Idea Is Insane /College/translation/threepercent/2010/04/14/this-idea-is-insane/ /College/translation/threepercent/2010/04/14/this-idea-is-insane/#respond Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:59:53 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2010/04/14/this-idea-is-insane/ OK, I’m totally going to sound like a luddite, a recluse, or that crazy guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn, but I think the that they’re going to archive all public Twitter “tweets” is fricking ridiculous. Sure, there are people who are way into Twitter and use it in ingenious and fascinating ways, but how many of the 50 million tweets “published” each day really need to be preserved? Fifteen?

We’ve gone too far . . . .

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