U.s. Library of Congress

I recently wrote about how well things are going at Gnip . Here we are just a few weeks later and my friends at Gnip continue to generate goodness in several different directions. Today Gnip announced it has partnered with Twitter and the U.S. Library of Congress to manage the receipt of all historical data from Twitter and facilitate its delivery to the Library of Congress. This news builds off a release from the Library of Congress back in April where LoC announced that they will digitally archive every public tweet from Twitter’s inception and will continue to archive new tweets going forward . LoC has hinted that the archive will have an “emphasis on scholarly and research” endeavors. ...