Library of Congress has 170 billion tweets
“We now have an archive of approximately 170 billion tweets and growing,” writes Library of Congress communications director Gayle Osterberg.
“The volume of tweets the Library receives each day has grown from 140 million beginning in February 2011 to nearly half a billion tweets each day as of October 2012. …
“Although the Library has been building and stabilizing the archive and has not yet offered researchers access, we have nevertheless received approximately 400 inquiries from researchers all over the world.”
* Update on the Twitter archive at the Library of Congress (blogs.loc.gov)
* Library of Congress has no plan for public display of tweets (washingtonpost.com)
* Earlier: Library of Congress and Twitter reach tweet archival deal (usatoday.com)
