Good news for any Twitter fanatics out there, it seems that the US Library of Congress is going to be logging and archiving all tweets passing through the micro-blogging service.

The little microblogger that could

As they’re more than happy to point out, the micro-blogging service has seen literally billions of tweets since its creation, with the number of tweets made per day having bounced up to 55 million a day. Given the sheer volume of data that passes through the service, it’s been known a fair while that if you search Twitter, you’re only actually searching through the last two weeks or so. That presents something of a problem for anyone looking to study the service in detail, but fortunately, it seems there’s a solution in sight.

According to the official Twitter blog, it seems that the US Library of Congress has been granted access to the entirety of Twitter’s archive of Tweets, and will be archiving the content that Twitter’s users generate, albeit with a six month lag. As Twitter points out in the blog post, it’s interesting to see the service being added, and coincides with the launch of Google Replay, which allows users to search for instances of particular words on a given date.

The news also coincides with the revelation that Twitter intends to release its own official Android app, though for the moment the details on that front are a little unclear. It’s not yet been said whether or not there’ll be a first party application or if Twitter will simply acquire one of the more popular Twitter apps already available on the platform.

For now though, it seems there are plenty of interesting things afoot for the service, even though it announced that it would be advertising in searches (and eventually in user streams) earlier this week.