Library of Congress Thoroughly Regrets Accepting All Tweets into Historical Record

Washington D.C. – The Library of Congress formally announced today that they "regret deeply" accepting all tweets into their formal record.

"When we made this decision in 2010, we thought Twitter would prove a valuable resource for historians," said spokeswoman Elena Mand. "We now know we were wrong."

X, formerly Twitter, did not respond directly to the statement, though many users of the service made comments denigrating the 224 year old institution and asking Elon Musk, X's owner, to "feed it to the woodchipper," a reference to a similar comment he made about the agency USAID.

Historians largely applauded the statement, with one noting that the collection of tweets from all users was valuable only as a reference for the "darkest angels of the human soul." Another tweeted that future historians could use the collection to mark the absolute nadir of human development.

The library has not announced plans to remove the existing tweets from the archive. When asked if there are such plans, Mand responded with a shrug before adding, "God I hope so."