Elizabeth Harrington reports:
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is “mining” Facebook and Twitter to improve its social media footprint and to assess how Tweets can be used as “change-agents” for health behaviors.
The NLM, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will have software installed on government computers that will store data from social media as part of a $30,000 project announced last week.
Read more on Washington Free Beacon.
I’m not sure what to make of this. Is the NLM going to be downloading all tweets in a publicly searchable archive like the Library of Congress?