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Twitter Enables Archive Option

Posted by samzenpus on from the read-it-and-weep dept.

judgecorp writes "Twitter has delivered on a long-promised feature which allows some users to download their entire Tweet history. The service was promised months ago by CEO Dick Costolo and equivalent features are already available at Facebook. At this stage, only some users can download their archive, and it's not clear how it will be rolled out to all users."

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  1. Well thank goodness! by rmdingler · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was mortally afraid all that wisdom would be lost forever. Sheesh...

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    Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

    Ernest Hemingway

  2. Re:Ah, just what I wanted... by ikaruga · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, the US Library of Congress genuinely think so

  3. How? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "...not clear HOW it will be rolled out to all users."

    Presumably, someone at Twitter ticks the 'enable for all users' box. As to WHEN that will happen, perhaps that's the more pertinent question.

    1. Re:How? by vlm · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I've read numerous articles claiming that 99% or whatever twitter accounts have either one or zero tweets sent. Probably 99% of them are spammer accounts but 1% of them might be like my account, join up, WTF is this, bye bye, never log in again.

      My guess is to control DB load you roll it out by archive size gradually. So corporate PR team who has sent 150K tweets gets it today, then drop the limit by 1K pre day or whatever...

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      "Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
  4. I just downloaded my twitter archive. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was easy because I don't use twitter.

  5. Re:Ah, just what I wanted... by garcia · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just like e-mails I've received in say, oh, the last 5 years? There are just as few e-mails I should really be saving as tweets made but yet I have an archive of every e-mail sent or received since 6/22/2004 and a spotty archive of everything I've sent or received since 1994.

    Let me tell you how useful the e-mails goes back to 1994 have been: I once found a deviled egg recipe my (at the time) future wife sent me in college. Man deviled eggs are yummy.

    YMMV.