The Washington Post
by Adrienne LaFrance
January 3, 2013

In the few minutes it will take you to read this story, some 3 million new tweets will have flitted across the publishing platform Twitter and ricocheted across the Internet. The Library of Congress is busy archiving the sprawling and frenetic Twitter canon — with some key exceptions — dating back to the site’s 2006 launch. That means saving for posterity more than 170 billion tweets and counting, with an average of more than 400 million new tweets sent each day, according to Twitter.

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I understand that Twitter is a communication tool. I understand that it has its place in the media. I understand that breaking news unfolds in real time on Twitter and that it can be useful.

Having said that, why would anyone think that archiving what a college freshman ate for dinner back in 2006 be "archive worthy"?