While individual "tweets are limited to 160 characters, you can still have
"conversations" of sorts and thus exchange information and come to
decisions. You also can define who is in the audience and who is outside
the audience, which I think might make for good evidence of actions
performed or decisions made, which might just qualify as a record after all
just like an IM.

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Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 07/09/2008
06:58:01 AM:

> 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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> twitter: jessewilkins

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