America archives its billions of tweets
- Published: 22 Jan 2013 at 10.45
- Online news: World
The Library of Congress, repository of the world's largest collection of books, has set for itself the enormous task of archiving something less weighty and far more ephemeral -- Americans' billions of tweets.
Photo taken on October 8, 2012 shows the main reading room at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The Library of Congress, repository of the world's largest collection of books, has set for itself the enormous task of archiving Americans' billions of tweets.
The venerable US institution is assembling all of the 400 million tweets sent by Americans each day, in the belief that each of the mini-messages reflect a small but important part of the national narrative.
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