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Twitter gets archived ? at the Library of Congress

By Simon Chester

Just announced (by Tweet naturally) is that 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 in the last four years numbering in the billions.

The announcement is timed to coincide with the Twitter developers conference in California.

One wonders just how future researchers will grapple with all of this content.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on April 14, 2010 (boomark / email).