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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Library of Congress says it's amassed about 170 billion tweets since it began collecting an archive of all Twitter messages in 2010.
Twitter is donating its archive to the library, going back to the first one posted in 2006.
Library Director of Communications Gayle Osterberg wrote in a blog post Friday that the volume of tweets it receives has grown from 140 million daily in February 2011 to nearly half a billion tweets each day in late 2012.
Librarians have been developing a system to preserve and organize the collection. Now the library is shifting its focus to handle the technical challenges of making such a massive archive available to researchers.
http://www.komonews.com/news/tech/Library-of-Congress-has-amassed-170-billion-tweets-185694722.html
I had no idea all tweets were being archived.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)I'll bet if tweeters had know, they would have worn clean underwear.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)One of the hurdles future historians will have to address; not a dearth of documentation, but an excess. Determining the significant will be a challenge, I would think.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)My dick pics are in congress!
Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)My insane rantings will be immortalized! Muahahahha!
intaglio
(8,170 posts)Oh, and could you do me a nice macaroon?
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)loli phabay
(5,580 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)now has a Stupidity Division.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,194 posts)or the Kardashians, whichever seems appropriate for future historians. FSM only knows what they're going to think of us.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)To say nothing of the inanity of the average person.
"i bought new shoes!"
"we 8 lunch!"
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Robb
(39,665 posts)"Save it all, we'll look through it later."
I suggested one time to a former boss that we go through and delete duplicate files on our server. He said he would spend more money paying anyone to do that than he would just buying more server space.