The Whitehouse is attempting to archive its social media content. Here's an excerpt describing what they are trying to do:
“In order to comply with the Presidential Records Act, the White House
New Media team is looking for a non personal service contractor to
crawl and archive PRA content on all third party sites where the EOP
has a presence (i.e. Facebook.com/whitehouse,
Twitter.com/whitehouse). Currently, the Government team is capturing
the data and content both programmatically (via Application Programming
Interfaces (APIs) from social networks) and manually (through daily
screen shots). EOP requires a provider to ensure we automatically
capture this content in a scalable, efficient and reliable manner.”
Read more here.
Posted by Jon Lutz
