In 2010, the Library of Congress and Twitter announced a historic and
incongruous partnership: Together, they would archive and preserve every
tweet ever posted, creating a massive store of short-form thoughts. It was
odd: a 210-year-old institution partnering with a four-year-old startup,
cataloging the internet’s ephemeral #brunchtweets. It was also fascinating:
equal parts futuristic and anachronistic*. *I imagined library scribes
copying tweets by hand onto vellum or cranking feeds through a printing
press. The news actually frightened some folks: *Does this mean my future
grandkids will read my live-tweets of *Parks and Recreation?


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