Letter Published in THE, 15 September 2011
The following letter was published in the Times Higher Education (THE) on 15 September 2011. The letter was published in response to an article entitled Memory failure detected.
Tweet Remembrance
The Library of Congress isn't the only organisation interested in Twitter preservation ("Memory failure detected", 1 September).
Last year, Jisc funded developments to the TwapperKeeper Twitter archiving service to support developments of interest to the UK's higher education sector. An archive was kept of the tweets posted during the Association for Learning Technology conference 2011 and at the time of writing more than 4,000 tweets had been collected.
From the use of the associated Summarizr tool, we can see a word cloud showing the popularity of "Karen" and "Cator" (one of the plenary speakers) and "technology" (unsurprisingly) - but why were people tweeting about "Uruguay"?
Brian Kelly
UKOLN
University of Bath
A screenshot of the letter is given below.
