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Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets
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Re: Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets
#72Be careful what you wish for, Zach. One of the defining features of real-time is that it's very spur-of-the-moment. Unfortunately, that often leads to poorly thought out posts. In the current scheme of things that weakness is mitigated by the fact that sufficiently old posts are effectively inaccessible.
Can you imagine the implications of an account's entire tweet archives being open to the public? A prospective employer could look up every mention you ever made about them or their industry. Venting tweets would be forever inscribed in history. That's not good. It's bad.
Re: Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets
#73I'm glad Twitter doesn't keep a record of my tweets. Perhaps for what you want, they could make it an opt-in service, but for invasion of my privacy, I'd just as soon not. And for their service load (media needed to store your tweets and server bandwidth time needed to make them accessible to you) I can well see how it might be a payable service.
Who said Twitter DOESN'T keep a record of your tweets? What's been said is that Twitter doesn't let users access any archive of your tweets they may well have, and that they may well continue to mine. Your point makes me want to revisit the standard terms under which users license their original tweets to Twitter.
Re: Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets
#74I recommend using The Archivist, which is free and will automatically save your tweets forevermore, for easy download at any later time. I've used it a couple of times to dig out old tweets of my own! http://archivist.visitmix.com/
Re: Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets
#75You can always favorite those really important tweets, or even resort to printing them in a compendium by Tweetbook.com. Some of my earliest tweets in a book form that I can go back and reflect on.
I agree that Twitter can do a better job of allowing us to search tweets by topic, but that's a 3rd party app waiting to happen. In the meantime, take a screen shot and post on your web or in flickr.
Re: Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have thousands of emails between close friends in Gmail that I would like to preserve, but no convenient system exists for archiving them away from Google. How about IMAP?
Tried it, volume is too large. Every client I've tried crashes before it can get everything, and there is still the issue of convenient storage format. I'll probably have to write my own archiver.
So use getmail_fetch through the POP server; it downloads a few hundred at a time into a maildir format. Hard to get more convenient and storable than that (tar it up and gzip or 7zip it).
Re: Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets
#77This is precisely why I built http://tweetsaver.com ... I wanted a nice way to search through ALL my old tweets AND keep them around. I'm always retweeting awesome content, favoriting interesting things, and sometimes I just want to remember what I said without having to click MORE MORE MORE MORE for 100 pages to find it on twitter.com. Maybe someday Twitter will turn on a feature that kills my app, but for now I thi…
$120/year is not worth it to me. $10/year would be. Just my feedback. :-)
I recently signed up for http://tweetstreamapp.com. $5 for a year of weekly backups, and they do some neat data visualizations, too. Well worth the fiver.