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According to Twitter’s website: “Twitter is a real-time information network powered by people all around the world that lets you share and discover what’s happening now.” Twitter enables users to send and read other users’ messages (called “tweets”), which are text-based posts of no more than 140 characters to a mass audience of “followers.” Tweets are visible publicly, as is the very intention of Twitter. Users may subscribe to other authors’ tweets.

San Antonio-based market research firm Pear Analytics analyzed 2,000 tweets which were sent in English from the United States over a two-week period in August 2009 and categorized the tweets as the following:

• Pointless babble (what one might also call “small talk”): 40.55 percent

• Conversational: 37.55 percent

• Pass-along value: 8.7 percent

• Self-promotion: 5.85 percent

• Spam: 3.75 percent

• News: 3.6 percent

There were more than 100 million registered Twitter users as of May, 2010. The US Library of Congress stated that it will be acquiring, and permanently storing the entire archive of public Twitter posts since 2006.