Library of Congress Acquires Twitter Archive

A press release from April 14, 2010, announced that the Library of Congress acquired the entire archives of Twitter tweets.

Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress.That’s right. Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. That’s a LOT of tweets, by the way: Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets every day, with the total numbering in the billions.

The Archives include, for example, the first ever tweet, President's Obama tweet about winning the 2008 presidential elections, and many more.

[I]f you're looking for a place where important historical and other information in digital form should be preserved for the long haul, we're [the Library of Congress] are it!

Our Twitter Makeover

Our Twitter profile had a makeover! Check it out here.

Live Video-Tweeting By Twitter

Via Telegraph.co.uk, Twitter is to introduce live video-tweeting.

Twitter users may soon be posting real-time video tweets in addition to text tweets under plans to modernize the site.

The upgrade, which is being discussed by Twitter's founders, will enable Twitter users to upload brief video snippets to their profiles directly from mobile phones, laptops and other devices.

Court Order Server Over Twitter

Via BBC News | Technology, an article featuring UK High Court allowing an injunction to be served via social-networking site Twitter to serve an unknown Twitter user who anonymously posts to the site using the same name as a right-wing political blogger.

The order demands the anonymous Twitter user reveal their identity and stop posing as Donal Blaney, who blogs at a site called Blaney's Blarney. The order says the Twitter user is breaching the copyright of Mr Blaney.

UK law states that an injunction does not have to be served in person and can be delivered by several different means including fax or e-mail.

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Pace Law Library Registered On Twellow

Twellow.com is the Twitter Yellow Pages. Pace Law Library is now listed. Click here to view Pace Law Library Twellow profile. To create an account (to register) is free. User's profile displays basic information such as a name, a location and a website. Users may post a brief and/or extended biography and they can indicate what Web 2.0 tools are they currently using.

Google Accounts On Twitter

For those of you out there who twitter, here is a list of Google accounts on twitter. Via Google blog post. Some of them are: Google, Blogger, Calendar, News, Reader, YouTube, ScetchUp, GoogleMaps, GoogleCode, GoogleData, googletalk, googlejobs, etc.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read each others' updates, known as tweets. (via Wikipedia.org)

GovFresh--Government 2.0

GovFresh is a live feed of official news from U.S. Government Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Facebook, Flickr accounts and more, all in one place.

Right now it includes the White House, Supreme Court, Congress, a number of Cabinet departments, along with some agencies (including the EPA), the Army, and the RNC and DNC.

GovBenefits.gov Is On Twitter

GovBenefits.gov is the official benefits website of the U.S. government, with information on over 1,000 benefit and assistance programs. You can subscribe via your email to receive updates, or now you can follow GovBenefits. gov on Twitter. There only are 2 updates so far. So, lets see! Stay informed!

Twitter via iPhone When on Jury Leads to Mistrial?

Via Citizen Media Law Project, David Artia posted Mistrial by iPhone, New Technologies Present Challenges in the Courtroom.

The New York Times reports that a juror in Arkansas used Twitter to send updates during a civil trial that resulted in a $12.6 million judgment against the defendant, which may be overturned as a result. The Times also reported that on Monday of this week, defense lawyers in the federal corruption trial of a former Pennsylvania state senator, Vincent Fumo, demanded that the judge declare a mistrial after a juror posted updates concerning the case on Facebook and via Twitter.