Every public tweet and Facebook entry in the UK could eventually be archived. Material on 1bn webpages from nearly 5m .uk websites, plus public tweets and Facebook entries, are to preserved for the historical record at six libraries in the UK and Ireland. The archive project, aimed at preserving a digital record of events and cultural and intellectual works to match traditional print archives, begins on 6 April.
British Library adds billions of webpages and tweets to archive | Technology | The Guardian
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