Yesterday, Twitter and the Library of Congress announced that the Library will digitally archive all public tweets made on the social network Twitter.  The Library of Congress announced the plan on its blog, and Twitter did the same on its blog.  Wired has a good overview of the news.

Something I didn’t know, but the Library of Congress archives lots of websites (from the LoC blog):

So if you think the Library of Congress is “just books,” think of this: The Library has been collecting materials from the web since it began harvesting congressional and presidential campaign websites in 2000. Today we hold more than 167 terabytes of web-based information, including legal blogs, websites of candidates for national office, and websites of Members of Congress.

We also operate the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program www.digitalpreservation.gov, which is pursuing a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations.

The Federal government, the White House, and the Library of Congress are taking Twitter seriously- are you?  Let us know in the comments.