I came across this article on CNN.com and thought it was pretty cool and kinda funny! Click on the link for the full article, but basically the Library of Congress has created a massive Twitter archive...apparently random, self-obsessed tweets have become important historical documents.
Library of Congress to archive your tweets
Twitter and the Library of Congress announced Wednesday that every public tweet posted since Twitter started in 2006 will be archived digitally by the federal library.
The purpose, according to a blog post by Library of Congress communications director Matt Raymond, is to document "important tweets" as well as gather information about the way we live through the sheer masses of tweets on the site.
"I'm no Ph.D., but it boggles my mind to think what we might be able to learn about ourselves and the world around us from this wealth of data," Raymond said in the post. And I'm certain we'll learn things that none of us now can even possibly conceive."
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