Tweet Tweet…Shhh! Library voices!
The 140 characters of the little blue bird have found a nesting place among the stacks at the Library of Congress.
Fellow Tweeps, if you never thought you would get your 15 minutes of fame as a published author with enough clout to be among the greats in the card catalog, never fear! Thanks to Twitter’s collaboration with the Library of Congress every 140 character message you have posted over your Twitter lifetime will soon be on display for all to see.
There is a six-month lag in storage so you can’t look back to yesterday’s gossip, but the archive will prove useful to look back at significant moments such as the very first tweet ever posted and events such as coverage of the Haiti earthquake.
One other reason to check yourself before you Tweet – your great great grandkids can look back and find out when you had a “fail whale” of a day. You don’t want to be rolling over in your grave now do you?
Side note: Another neat tool released recently by Google is Google Replay. It lets you re-live real-time search results from a certain moment in time (right now only back to Feb. 2010, but it will soon go several years back).
