Hacker News Reader

Tweets are embedded in tons of news articles as primary sources, and often require the image to make sense. Like it or not, Twitter is a primary source for a significant proportion of history worldwide, as it contains a lot of first-person reporting and evidence.

Twitter's not just about documenting what you had for breakfast; it's also about documenting civil war atrocities.

I would care. There’s an active community of artists and developers who regularly post images of their work, as well as educational material. I can also conceive of other such communities that I’m not aware of whose members would feel the same. Losing years of those resources would be a great loss.

Twitter really has a PR issue. So many people still see it as the place to post “ate a sandwich for lunch today”, when it’s so much bigger than that.

Well, apparently some people care as some people have noticed.

(I myself have some old tweets I cite from time to time, sure I can copy, but providing sources is a good practice)