Archival Use for Twitter

Archivists at Cambridge University's Scott Polar Research Institute are using Twitter to draw attention to the diary that Captain Robert Falcon Scott kept during his ill-fated 1910-1912 Antarctic expedition: every day, they tweet the first 140 characters of the diary entry that Scott penned exa...

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Main Author: Klaus Graf
Format: Other/Unknown Material
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Published: Archivalia 2009
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Online Access:http://archivalia.hypotheses.org/19379
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Summary:Archivists at Cambridge University's Scott Polar Research Institute are using Twitter to draw attention to the diary that Captain Robert Falcon Scott kept during his ill-fated 1910-1912 Antarctic expedition: every day, they tweet the first 140 characters of the diary entry that Scott penned exactly 99 years before. http://larchivista.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-archival-use-for-twitter.html