Even the Library of Congress Embraces Twitter

Even The Library of Congress Embraces Twitter was originally published on City Desk on Jan. 28, 2009, at 10:21 am

Wow. The Library of Congress has now got a twitter account. They have embraced the 100-or-so-character sound bite. They note on their blog:

“Howdy, folks! (Sorry, my Wyoming roots are showing.)  The Library of Congress finally has its own official Twitter feed.  You can follow us here: http://twitter.com/librarycongress

‘Library of Congress’ was too long as a user name, so in the spirit of Twitter itself, we’ve been truncated.

As I’ve been alluding for some time, we are on the cusp of many more forays into the Web 2.0, and I hope to bring more announcements soon (most likely weeks, not months).  We are going to be pushing some incredible content out to the world in new ways and in new spaces — just a smattering of the millions and millions of digital resources we have online, of course, but presented with the fantastic interactivity of these new Web tools.”

Kind of funny that they couldn’t use their full name for their account.

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