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Egypt: One year after the revolution, 10% of its Social Media Documentation is already gone

Posted 21 February 2012 16:45 GMT

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Español · Egipto: Un año después de la revolución, 10% de su documentación en medios sociales está desaparecida
Ελληνικά · Αίγυπτος: Ένα χρόνο μετά την επανάσταση, το 10% της τεκμηρίωσης στα κοινωνικά μέσα έχει χαθεί
简体中文 · 埃及：革命一周年后，社会媒体上10%的相关资料不翼而飞

One year after the Egyptian revolution, 10% of its Social Media Documentation is already gone. An article on US magazine The Atlantic explains how this is happening, quoting  a study conducted by a phD student in computer science and Web preservation at Old Dominion University. “Twitter gives us a new version of ‘the first rough draft of history.’ But tweets are fragile things.”

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  • http://www.mrjom.com Joseph de Lange

    If twitter is the culprit because of the low survival rate of tweets, It may need a time line and tweet archive for history’s sake. Perhaps this idea is too simplistic.

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