Politico: “In the spring of 2010, the Library of Congress announced it was taking a big stride toward preserving the nation’s increasingly digital heritage — by acquiring Twitter’s entire archive of tweets and planning to make it all available to “How Tweet It Is!” the library said in an exuberant blog post, which generated fanfare from tech sites, the mainstream media, librarian blogs and, of course, Twitter. For the two-century-old library, it was evidence that even an institution that traces its heritage to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson can break new ground in social media. But more than five years later, the project is in limbo. The library is still grappling with how to manage an archive that amounts to something like half a trillion tweets. And the researchers are still waiting.”  [Note – I respectfully declined to participate in this program when contacted – I have over 35,000 postings on beSpacific.com with exponentially more links therein – extrapolate on the breath of the LC project and the number of blogs that simply go silent – I am not one of course. When I stop you will know I have departed this earth, and not for another planet!]