At first the pairing of the venerable old Library of Congress(founded by Thomas Jefferson) with the vastly up-to-date social network and micro blog Twitter seems most unlikely. Yet yesterday, April 14, each, in separate postings, announced their highly significant partnership.
The Library of Congress disclosed in its twitter feed and in its blog that the world's largest library would house the digital archive of all twitter tweets since its inception in March 2006 and continuing. Title of their twitter and blog posts: "How tweet it is!" A takeoff on Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners phrase from Ralph Kramden, "How sweet it is!"
If you have ever "tweeted" your tweets will be archived there and, eventually, searchable. The twitter blog post "Twitter Preservation announced on its site its partnering with the Library of Congress with a great deal of excitement. Twitter estimates over 50 million tweets per day and growing. Each tweet is only 140 characters in length. If only 1% of these tweets per day were business related (and it's probably considerably more), that would be over 500,000 tweets for business each day. This indicates to me that daily tweets from your business "must" now be a part of any business plan.
The significance of this announcement cannot be underestimated. It puts the full prestige of the Library of Congress behind the supporting and archiving of major social networks and puts libraries in the forefront both as tweeters and preservers of this cultural phenomenon. You can follow the Library of Congress tweets @librarycongress. You can follow twitter's twitter account @twitter.
Twitter is only 140 characters in length and that is the title of a new book that is bound to the bible of twitter style. 140 Characters,A Style Guide For The Short Form, by Dom Sagolla is a book well worth investigating. It is endorsed by Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and author of the first tweet. Sagolla provides an instructive history of twitter, how the name came about, its originators, how 140 characters was decided on, major players, and its rapid evolution of being one of the top 10 goto sites in the world. It really is a style manual with do's and don'ts. Like twitter it has hundreds of short takes and is often amusing.
If you want to know about twitter in all its ramifications, you will want to read and keep this book as a working reference and style guide. You'll learn how to write effective tweets and you'll have fun too.
Twitter and Library of Congress announcements this week come during National Library Week, April 12 through April 17. It is a time to celebrate all libraries.
140 Characters by Dom Sagolla can be found at Pittsfield's Public Library, the Berkshire Athenaeum and at your local library.
Kudos to Twitter and the Library of Congress!
The Library of Congress disclosed in its twitter feed and in its blog that the world's largest library would house the digital archive of all twitter tweets since its inception in March 2006 and continuing. Title of their twitter and blog posts: "How tweet it is!" A takeoff on Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners phrase from Ralph Kramden, "How sweet it is!"
If you have ever "tweeted" your tweets will be archived there and, eventually, searchable. The twitter blog post "Twitter Preservation announced on its site its partnering with the Library of Congress with a great deal of excitement. Twitter estimates over 50 million tweets per day and growing. Each tweet is only 140 characters in length. If only 1% of these tweets per day were business related (and it's probably considerably more), that would be over 500,000 tweets for business each day. This indicates to me that daily tweets from your business "must" now be a part of any business plan.
The significance of this announcement cannot be underestimated. It puts the full prestige of the Library of Congress behind the supporting and archiving of major social networks and puts libraries in the forefront both as tweeters and preservers of this cultural phenomenon. You can follow the Library of Congress tweets @librarycongress. You can follow twitter's twitter account @twitter.
Twitter is only 140 characters in length and that is the title of a new book that is bound to the bible of twitter style. 140 Characters,A Style Guide For The Short Form, by Dom Sagolla is a book well worth investigating. It is endorsed by Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and author of the first tweet. Sagolla provides an instructive history of twitter, how the name came about, its originators, how 140 characters was decided on, major players, and its rapid evolution of being one of the top 10 goto sites in the world. It really is a style manual with do's and don'ts. Like twitter it has hundreds of short takes and is often amusing.
If you want to know about twitter in all its ramifications, you will want to read and keep this book as a working reference and style guide. You'll learn how to write effective tweets and you'll have fun too.
Twitter and Library of Congress announcements this week come during National Library Week, April 12 through April 17. It is a time to celebrate all libraries.
140 Characters by Dom Sagolla can be found at Pittsfield's Public Library, the Berkshire Athenaeum and at your local library.
Kudos to Twitter and the Library of Congress!
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