For those who haven't already seen the news, the Library of Congress announced today that they are acquiring the entire archive of public Twitter activity since March 2006: Library of Congress Announcement: How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive http://www.loc.gov/tweet/how-tweet-it-is.html Twitter Announcement: Tweet Preservation http://blog.twitter.com/2010/04/tweet-preservation.html And my initial probe of various open concerns: Open Questions about Library of Congress Archiving Twitter Streams http://michaelzimmer.org/2010/04/14/open-questions-about-library-of-congress... -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Associate, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org