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Library of Congress to acquire and archive every public tweet ever

Your Tweets, Archived for Eternity, By Emily Long, TechInsider (04/14/10).

In true Twitter fashion, the news came out via the @librarycongress feed: “Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive — ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006! Details to follow..”

Library of Congress to archive public Tweets, By Emily Long, NextGov (04/14/2010).

According to Twitter, the Tweets will be available for internal library use, noncommercial research, public display and preservation after a six-months.

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