Comments on: oldtweets

By: Tom Duke

Tom Duke — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:51:44 +0000

I used to use twapperkeeper, thought it would be around for ever and then one day it got scooped up by HootSuite. HootSuite claims that the functionality is now within their product, but it doesn't work the same.

I was excited to find oldtweets, but it's not working for me: @Tom_Duke

Any assistance would be very much appreciated, I tried:

userid:Tom_Duke and it finds 0 results.

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Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:24:39 +0000

[...] increased over this period. I’ve tried to figure out why and this is the closest I could get. Kellan wrote a blog post about the 1st year of tweets, in which he said it worked best in the first year because of “ambient intimacy”. There [...]

By: vanderwal

vanderwal — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:14:13 +0000

Rabble, yep. Privacy is a binary wrapper for all one's own tweets. I lifted the privacy to get an archive tool to grab about 17k of my tweets in 2008 or so. It was open for about 24 hours then I put it back in private.

I really would love to get a full archive of my first 40k Tweets. There is so much in there of trips and kid's funny sayings.

By: rabble

rabble — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:43:02 +0000

Privacy was part of twitter during this time. I know because i found a tweet where i set my account to private. Once you go BACK to being public, all the old private tweets become non-private.

http://twitter.com/rabble/status/7614651/

By: vanderwal

vanderwal — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:10:16 +0000

I’m guessing it didn’t let you pull accounts that are currently private, even though Twitter privacy didn’t arrive until much later?

I would have unprivated my account for a few days had I known you were going to do this.

By: Ruby

Ruby — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:05:13 +0000

Love this. Thanks, Kellan! I'm surprised at how similar my tweets are now to 6 years ago. There weren't any RT's yet, but I found my first @reply to someone in March 2007.

By: John Furrier

John Furrier — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:05:05 +0000

nice work..those sequential integers was cool..i'd love to know who was the last person under that format ...that is when twitter switched off of it..

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:47:34 +0000

This is awesome, but I want the raw data. Where is it??

By: Kellan

Kellan — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:35:32 +0000

@tim: it’s case sensitive, try http://kellan.io/oldtweets?q=userid%3ATim535353

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:47:48 +0000

its not working for all users, i'm 59 user and nothing shows up for mu user name @ tim535353

By: Kellan

Kellan — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:48:04 +0000

@jeremy: thanks for the reminder.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:44:32 +0000

Kellan,

We had to use prime offsets because tweet ID's were mysql auto increment, and we were experimenting with multiple write masters (something which never actually worked even with the help of Percona and others), and that was MySQL AB's recommended procedure for avoiding auto increment row collisions.

Jeremy

By: harryh

harryh — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:44:27 +0000

I really regret deleting my very first tweet which was something like this:

Oh look, it's like dodgeball but with fewer features!

Which was factually correct but (with the benefit of hindsight) entirely missing the point.

By: whitneymcn

whitneymcn — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:44:15 +0000

I was relatively late to Twitter (though turns out I did squeak under the oldtwitter wire with a cursory Mar 28, 10:46 2007 tweet), but when I really started using it in late 2007 or early 2008, the realization that this was different and fascinating in ways I hadn’t really thought about hit me hard:

http://smr.absono.us/2008/02/that-ambient-intimacy-thing/