• Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:30 PM

Never one to shy away from big projects, Google is making every Tweet ever Tweeted on Twitter searchable. The feature is expected to be available worldwide in the next few days, and while it presently only goes back two months, it is eventually expected to include every tweet dating back to the first one on March 21, 2006.

"This is the next step in the product evolution of making this type of content available," Dylan Casey, Google's product manager for real-time search, tells The Los Angeles Times. "We're really excited to give users the ability to replay a conversation." Thinking big picture, Casey also suggests that the records will provide an important historical perspective into what happened when, and how people responded to it -- in 140 characters or less.

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