Library to Archive Groundbreaking Social Network

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Have you ever sent out a "tweet" on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress.rnAt 8:36 a.m. on April 14, The Library's Communications Director Matt Raymond tweeted the announcement of Twitter's donation of its digital archive of public tweets: It read: "Library acquires ENTIRE Twitter archive. ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006!"rnTwitter processes more than 50 million tweets per day from people around the world. The Library will receive all public tweets -which number in the billions-from the 2006 inception of the service to the present.