I've always considered Twitter to be sort of a publicly viewable SMS
(text message) service.

Most SMS systems also have a fairly small char limit (usually around 160
- not much bigger than Twitter)and due to that small amount of text they
well may not be considered records but they can have ramifications as
the mayor of Detroit recently found out.

I would think that if an employees use of email, Blackberry's, text
messages, can be subject to discovery  that employee use of Twitter
would fall into that same category.



Gerry

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Hi Gerry, 

Right now I suspect 99+% of organizations' response to a story like this
would be, "What the &($$ is Twitter?" No, it is NOT being captured
anywhere by anyone as far as I know other than as part of the native
Twitter archiving infrastructure (save everything for indeterminate
period). Twitter has an API so it wouldn't be hard to write something to
download them and sift through them, but at 140 char per Tweet I suspect
that most Tweets aren't records - rather they point to records or are
simply status updates of something else. 

Jesse Wilkins
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