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Posted by: Gayle Osterberg
In 2010, the Library of Congress announced an exciting and groundbreaking acquisition—a gift from Twitter of the entire archive of public tweet text beginning with the first tweets of 2006 through 2010, and continuing with all public tweet text going forward. The Library took this step for the same reason it collects other materials – …
Posted in: Social Media, Technology
Posted by: Gayle Osterberg
The visual richness of the Library of Congress never ceases to amaze me – from the extraordinary architecture of its Thomas Jefferson Building, to the diverse public programs, to the collections themselves. Many Americans will never have the opportunity to visit the Library in person, so we are always looking for ways to share the Library …
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Events, Photos, Social Media, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC
Posted by: Gayle Osterberg
(UPDATE: Here’s a December 2017 status report on our work with the Twitter archives.) An element of our mission at the Library of Congress is to collect the story of America and to acquire collections that will have research value. So when the Library had the opportunity to acquire an archive from the popular social media …
Posted in: Collections, Social Media