UK Government’s Tweets

National Archives to capture tweets and social media created by the UK government

Their website has a direct link to the Twitter archive  and a YouTube archive   According to the official press release the following rules have been applied.

• Where  tweets contain a link to web content that is included in the UK Government  Web Archive users can expect the link to behave almost as it would on the  live web.
• Re-tweets made by government accounts are excluded and tweets sent from non-government accounts that form part of a conversation on Twitter but don’t appear in the API for the accounts we’re collecting (e.g. replies, or tweets directed at the government accounts) haven’t been  preserved.

Tweeted links that direct the user to web domains that are not  in scope for our other archiving activity (e.g. newspaper websites) will lead to a 410 message that allows users to see the destination of the link and locate the material elsewhere.