The Library of Congress is where not just books but other documents deemed to have great historical significance are stored. And soon those documents will include an archive of every single public Twitter posting ever sent. Twitter and the Library of Congress have reached an agreement whereby an archive of those postings will be transferred to the library for inclusion in its electronic archives.
"We were excited to be involved with acquiring the Twitter archives because it’s a unique record of our time," [LoC digital initiatives program manager Bill] Lefurgy said. "It’s also a unique way of communication. It’s not so much that people are going to be interested in what you or I had for lunch, which some people like to say on Twitter."
Researchers will be able to search and data-mine the archives for interesting data. It will not include privacy-protected postings.
(Found via Slashdot.)
