All Public Tweets to be Donated to the Library of Congress
By Craig Lloyd on Apr 15th, 2010 at 12:19PM
Approximately 55 million tweets are sent through Twitter each and every day, and the social networking site announced on their blog yesterday that the United States Library of Congress will be storing every one of your public tweets.
“It is our pleasure to donate access to the entire archive of public Tweets to the Library of Congress for preservation and research. It’s very exciting that tweets are becoming part of history. It should be noted that there are some specifics regarding this arrangement. Only after a six-month delay can the Tweets will be used for internal library use, for non-commercial research, public display by the library itself, and preservation.”
For “preservation and research,” eh? I understand preserving and researching historical documents and the like, but tweets?
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