https://omid.dev/tags/library-of-congress/Recent content in Library of Congress on Omid Farhanghttps://omid.dev/images/bio-photo-150x150.jpghttps://omid.dev/images/bio-photo-150x150.jpgHugo -- 0.163.3en-US2026 Omid Farhang | All rights reserved.Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:05:00 +0000https://omid.dev/2010/04/14/library-of-congress-to-preserve-tweets-for-eternity/Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:05:00 +0000https://omid.dev/2010/04/14/library-of-congress-to-preserve-tweets-for-eternity/<p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vaUVXcmC3OI/S8ZDK-qfraI/AAAAAAAAB9M/GP8PJEhjFNs/s1600-h/library-of-congress-1%5B3%5D.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vaUVXcmC3OI/S8ZDM8crcNI/AAAAAAAAB9Q/snPE35RzEtg/library-of-congress-1_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="library-of-congress-1" title="library-of-congress-1" /> </a> Today the Library of Congress is <a href="http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acquires-entire-twitter-archive/">announcing</a> that it’s doing its part to digitally preserve each and every public tweet since the beginning of time … err Twitter. It fittingly <a href="http://twitter.com/librarycongress/status/12169442690">broke</a> the news on Twitter earlier today.</p> <p>As a federal cultural institution, the Library of Congress exists for research purposes, preserving every form of written word imaginable — and now that includes our tweets.</p> <p>The institution deems tweets important and hopes to use the archives “to learn about ourselves and the world around us.”</p>