The Library of Congress plans to provide an archive of all tweets starting from the launch of Twitter in early 2006. The archive will include important tweets like those about earthquakes, Iran and the 2010 Presidential election. It will also include mundane tweets like what I had for lunch tweets and OMG Justin Bieber tweets.
Have you ever sent out a "tweet" on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress.
That's right. Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter's inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. That's a LOT of tweets, by the way: Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets every day, with the total numbering in the billions.
Our sister site, Bloggers Blog, reports that all future tweets will also be archived with a six month delay.
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