The Library of Congress is the research library of the U.S. Congress. Claiming to be the largest library in the world, it announced that it's archiving all communication on Twitter.
This includes all communication since Twitter's launch in March 2006..
By collecting all tweets, the Library’s collection is putting Twitter more in line with the way that other digital collections are archived, including websites. But unlike the nonprofit Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, the Library of Congress only archives websites on a selective basis.
"The Twitter Archive may prove to be one of this generation’s most significant legacies to future generations,” the Library of Congress said. “Future generations will learn much about this rich period in our history, the information flows, and social and political forces that help define the current generation."
