Art. Museums. Community. Audio. War. Confirmed: Twitter is Saving All Your Tweets, After All. Forest fires in California, the plane landing on the Hudson river, the Mumbai hotel attacks - these historical events and many more have been recorded by everyday people on the ground, using Twitter.
The historic record may be much, much richer as a result - but you can't access it through search.twitter.com right now. Many people have worried that the inaccessibility of historical Twitter search results might mean that the messages weren't being saved at all. Company co-founder Biz Stone told us otherwise by email today, though. Twitter is in fact saving all the tweets.