Everything you've ever tweeted: The Library of Congress says it's amassed about 170 Billion Tweets
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Library of Congress says it's amassed about 170 billion tweets since it began collecting an archive of all Twitter messages in 2010.
Twitter is donating its archive to the library, going back to the first one posted in 2006.
Library Director of Communications Gayle Osterberg wrote in a blog post Friday that the volume of tweets it receives has grown from 140 million daily in February 2011 to nearly half a billion tweets each day in late 2012.
Librarians have been developing a system to preserve and organize the collection. Now the library is shifting its focus to handle the technical challenges of making such a massive archive available to researchers.
http://www.komonews.com/news/tech/Library-of-Congress-has-amassed-170-billion-tweets-185694722.html
I had no idea all tweets were being archived.
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My insane rantings will be immortalized! Muahahahha! 
To say nothing of the inanity of the average person.
"i bought new shoes!"
"we 8 lunch!"
"Save it all, we'll look through it later."
I suggested one time to a former boss that we go through and delete duplicate files on our server. He said he would spend more money paying anyone to do that than he would just buying more server space. 
