Library of Congress, Twitter agree to archive tweets.

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The Library of Congress and Twitter have agreed to archive every public Tweet ever sent in the library's repository of historical documents.

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According to Federal News Radio, the archives won't contain tweets that users have protected, but everything else--billions and billions of tweets--will be included.

Using new technical processes it has developed, Twitter is moving a large quantity of electronic data from one electronic source to another. "They've had to do some pretty nifty experimentation and invention to develop the tools and a process to be able to move all of that data over to us," Bill Lefurgy, the digital initiatives program manager at the library's national digital information infrastructure and preservation program, told...