Twitter is the history of the everyperson

Twitter archives at the Library of Congress—along with the Internet, in general—will offer future historians a new way to write about the past, argues Slate's Christopher Beam. For the first time, we'll have the story of average people—rather than just the "Great Men" or the upper classes—recorded as it happens, by the people it happened to. Imagine how a perspective like that would change our understanding of Ancient Rome, or even early-20th century cooking.