Comments on: Two Quick & Easy Ways To Find That Missing Tweet http://twittercism.com/find-missing-tweets/ A Twitter Blog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:10:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Sheamus http://twittercism.com/find-missing-tweets/comment-page-1/#comment-7421 Sheamus Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:13:47 +0000 http://twittercism.com/?p=900#comment-7421 Rob, if you've had a Friendfeed account for a while and been feeding your tweets through that it's a great way to back-search your Twitter archive. With Google you should be able to search everything since Google started parsing the tweets (maybe longer). When I wrote this article there was no limit on the internal Twitter search but now it's been set to <strong>seven days</strong> to, I believe, limit server strain. Either way, it's incredibly dumb, especially for a company that hypes itself around its search tool. Once again, we remain mystified by bizarre internal decisions that are continue to be made without (it appears) a thought for the ramifications. I wonder if a deeper search facility will be a feature of the upcoming premium accounts? Rob, if you’ve had a Friendfeed account for a while and been feeding your tweets through that it’s a great way to back-search your Twitter archive. With Google you should be able to search everything since Google started parsing the tweets (maybe longer).

When I wrote this article there was no limit on the internal Twitter search but now it’s been set to seven days to, I believe, limit server strain. Either way, it’s incredibly dumb, especially for a company that hypes itself around its search tool. Once again, we remain mystified by bizarre internal decisions that are continue to be made without (it appears) a thought for the ramifications.

I wonder if a deeper search facility will be a feature of the upcoming premium accounts?

]]> By: Rob O. http://twittercism.com/find-missing-tweets/comment-page-1/#comment-7419 Rob O. Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:09:42 +0000 http://twittercism.com/?p=900#comment-7419 This continues to be a big problem for me - what's the point in having (in my case) nearly 2500 tweets if I can't search back beyond the most recent 50-100 of them? The Google search option is not much better than Twitter's. There was a service that i tried several months ago called Tweetback that would backup your Twitter timeline to an HTML file. Worked pretty well, but I think they went under. .-= Rob O.´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.2dolphins.com/2009/08/tax-free-insanity.html" rel="nofollow">Tax-Free Insanity</a> =-. This continues to be a big problem for me – what’s the point in having (in my case) nearly 2500 tweets if I can’t search back beyond the most recent 50-100 of them? The Google search option is not much better than Twitter’s.

There was a service that i tried several months ago called Tweetback that would backup your Twitter timeline to an HTML file. Worked pretty well, but I think they went under.
.-= Rob O.´s last blog ..Tax-Free Insanity =-.

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