You know...I really don't understand the machinations behind this.

wait a minute... it wasn't that long ago that when you made more than 3200 tweets, your oldest entries disappeared (and yes, when I was wendelldotme, I tweeted a lot more than 3200 times) ... will the Library of Congress get access to things the original twitterer doesn't?!?

This seems pointless. What value is there in saving all this?

You know how we read mundane correspondance from the 1700s or whatever and it tells us semi-interesting things about the time period? I dunno, maybe this'll be like that.

oneswellfoop: The tweets are all still there on Twitter's servers (as you can see if you have a direct link to one of your old ones). It's just that their pagination only goes back a certain number of pages.

Oh noes. Now my devotion to my cat, my love of corned beef sammiches, and my propensity to get drunk and tweet shit during NFL games will be archived forever.

I'm kinda in favor of this, actually. Twitter is one of many swirls of minutiae that future generations will use to reconstruct our times.