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Library of Congress to Archive Tweets
Whether you say really intelligent things on Twitter or whether you're a bot that tells people where to find torrents and mortgage advice, you're going to be archived for all eternity by the Library of Congress. Today Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced that the LoC will begin archiving the 55 million daily tweets in an unprecedented validation of social media as a culturally relevant item.
The LoC already stores 167 Terabytes of web site information and works to preserve and collect significant digital content (not to be confused with Archive.org which is completely separate). Since 1800 the Library has collected 32 million book along millions of maps, recordings and films. Somehow archiving anything ever said by @willgallahue or the hundreds of thousands of ghost repeater / bot accounts seems a bit much but I guess Twitter is an important cultural institution.
Twitter CEO Evan Williams noted that DMs will not be archived but those "@mom stop nagging" messages will be visible to scholars working on dissertations years from now.