Congress to make tweet archive

The Library of Congress is to archive every single public tweet ever posted. According toTwitter, billions of tweets have been created says since they started in 2006, while 55m are sent every day. The digital archive would include tweets from President Barack Obama on the day he was elected as well as the first tweet from co-founder Jack Dorsey. Alongside the Library of Congress announcement, Google revealed how it is going to make the Twitter archive searchable for users. The search giant unveiled a replay feature that lets users search tweets posted at any given point in time right down to the minute. For the moment the replay feature will only cover the last two months of tweets. Google said later in the summer it hopes to cover the entire archive all the way back to March 2006.