JournalNow.com: "for research into our contemporary way of life"

This selection comes from Marsha Mercer's piece at JournalNow.com, "Products of Twitter, no passing fad, are now being recorded for posterity by the Library of Congress Tweeting Into History". It's interesting because it comments on a recent decision by the Library of Congress to officially archive every Tweet.

"It's startling to think that the Library of Congress' stamp of approval on Twitter, Justin Bieber and all, may be as significant in the 21st century as preserving the library of Thomas Jefferson was in the 19th. Jefferson gave his leather-bound volumes to rebuild the collection after British troops set fire to the Capitol.

Here's Librarian of Congress James H. Billington: "The Twitter digital archive has extraordinary potential for research into our contemporary way of life."

Tweets, he said, provide "detailed evidence about how technology-based social networks form and evolve over time. The collection also documents a remarkable range of social trends.""

By the way, if you're on twitter, you can follow me at AWayofLife0 or JStreetJr. You can also follow a couple of others I'm involved with, Plate 2 Stage & DC PAL.

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Products of Twitter, no passing fad, are now being recorded for posterity by the Library of Congress Tweeting Into History