The Library of Congress is the research library of the U.S. Congress.
It issued a white paper saying that it was proud of its comprehensive collection of tweets from the first 12 years of Twitter. But the Library saw the collection as unnecessary, making its attempt to save future tweets to be less significant.
Because many tweets include photos and video, the Library that has only been collecting text, is seeing its collection as worthless.
The organization said that it will only collect tweets that it deems historically significant.
The Library of Congress said in a statement:
"Given the unknown direction of social media when the [collection of tweets] was first planned, the Library made an exception for public tweets. With social media now established, the Library is bringing its collecting practice more in line with its collection policies."
Since announcing the attempt back in 2010, the archive had never been launched properly. It was reported that no engineers had been assigned to the project, making the project messy
And as the number of tweets posted daily grew from 55 million in 2010 to 500 million in 2012, the project grew even more unwieldy.
