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April 15, 2010
* All public tweets archived
* Tweet numbers "in the billions"
* Includes first tweet by co-founder
THE US Library of Congress said today it plans to digitally archive all of the billions of messages known as "tweets" sent on Twitter since its launch four years ago.
"Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive - ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006!" the Washington-based library, the world's largest, said in a message on its Twitter account.
"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," Matt Raymond of the Library of Congress added in a blog post.
Mr Raymond highlighted the "scholarly and research implications" of acquiring the micro-blogging service's archive.
* All public tweets archived
* Tweet numbers "in the billions"
* Includes first tweet by co-founder
THE US Library of Congress said today it plans to digitally archive all of the billions of messages known as "tweets" sent on Twitter since its launch four years ago.
"Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive - ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006!" the Washington-based library, the world's largest, said in a message on its Twitter account.
"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," Matt Raymond of the Library of Congress added in a blog post.
Mr Raymond highlighted the "scholarly and research implications" of acquiring the micro-blogging service's archive.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/us-library-of-congress-to-archive-all-twitter-messages-since-sites-launch/story-e6frfro0-1225853940373
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