If you have ever sent a Tweet, you are apparently joining the Library of Congress. Yes, the largest library in the nation that is supposed to house every book published in the United States, is now adding Twitter to its catalogue.

“That's right. Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter's inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress,” the library's blog reports. (Who knew they even had a blog?). “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.”

Is this really as essential as say the Federalist Papers or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to name a few of the historic writings now housed there? Perhaps.

As Library of Congress Blogger Matt Raymond explains further: “Just a few examples of important tweets in the past few years include the first-ever tweet from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey (http://twitter.com/jack/status/20), President Obama's tweet about winning the 2008 election (http://twitter.com/barackobama/status/992176676), and a set of two tweets from a photojournalist who was arrested in Egypt and then freed because of a series of events set into motion by his use of Twitter (http://twitter.com/jamesbuck/status/786571964) and (http://twitter.com/jamesbuck/status/787167620)."

Okay, maybe that is important.