Did I tweet that?

According to a recent article, every public tweet, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. 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.

Surprise! Social media is alive and well in our Library of Congress. They don’t just archive books anymore.  As a matter of fact, they have been collecting materials from the web since it began harvesting congressional and presidential campaign websites in 2000. Today they hold more than 167 terabytes of web-based information, including legal blogs, websites of candidates for national office, and websites of Members of Congress.  

So what are you tweeting about?  If you think you can delete it – think again. If you post it, they save it.  

Happy tweeting twitter birds.

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