The US Library of Congress has announced that it will archive all public tweets. See more in it's blog. To be mine-able, for ever and ever, all your mundane thoughts. I had been starting to think that Twitter's attraction was that it was all throw-away. Maybe not.
" ... 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 ... "
Update and repost: I received quite a few emails regarding this message, and it has seen lots of other comment on the Web. It is good to also mention the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, which does a similar thing for the whole Web. I have used it for several research topics and it is worth understanding as to it's contribution to the permanency of the Internet record.
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