Genial!! Klingt fast wie ein Aprilscherz, aber es scheint wahr zu sein. Den Hinweis darauf gab Ed Summers (Twitter: edsu) vor einer halben Stunde mit dem Kommentar “holy shit”.

(…) Since Twitter began, billions of tweets have been created. Today, fifty-five million tweets a day are sent to Twitter and that number is climbing sharply. A tiny percentage of accounts are protected but most of these tweets are created with the intent that they will be publicly available. Over the years, tweets have become part of significant global events around the world—from historic elections to devastating disasters.

It is our pleasure to donate access to the entire archive of public Tweets to the Library of Congress for preservation and research. It’s very exciting that tweets are becoming part of history. It should be noted that there are some specifics regarding this arrangement. Only after a six-month delay can the Tweets will be used for internal library use, for non-commercial research, public display by the library itself, and preservation (…)

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Kleiner Nachtrag: Wenn jeder Tweet als Bestandseinheit zählt, kann man ihren Rang als größte Bibliothek der Welt nicht mehr anzweifeln ;)

Informative Beiträge zum Thema:

How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive / LoC

Your Past and Future Tweets Will Be Archived At the Library of Congress/ gizmodo

Tweet archive to Library of Congress / cbc

Google and Library of Congress archive tweets /  cnn money