14 Apr 2010, Posted by Susana Baker in Articles,General, 0 Comments

Tweeting for Posterity

An announcement released Wednesday from Twitter and the Library of Congress revealed that every public tweet ever posted on Twitter since its inception will be digitally stored in the Library of Congress.

Twitter receives about 55 million tweets per day from 105 million registered users. The purpose is to document important and historical tweets as well as to collect information about society as a whole.

Since 2000, the Library has been storing valuable information from the internet, currently about 167 terabytes worth.

Who would have thought that social networking would become historically relevant?