Library Of Congress Archiving All Tweets

The U.S. Library of Congress announced earlier today that they would be acquiring the entire archive of tweets from Twitter. Not surprisingly, the announcement was accompanied by a tweet whose viral retweeting might explain why their blog is down at the time of this writing.

The Library of Congress says that they will be acquiring all tweets, right back to the first one from co-founder Jack Dorsey in Mar 2006. (Note: If the Library of Congress blog containing the anouncement is still down, see LOC’s Facebook Page for more information, or go directly to their note on Facebook.)