Twitter archive will be like the diary you never took the time to keep

This week, Twitter announced that it was rolling out its long-awaited archive feature, a portion of the service that would let users access every last one of the 140-character missives they?ve ever composed.

The archive feature will work much like Facebook?s archive feature, where users submit a request for an archive to be compiled, and then download the archive onto their local machine. With Twitter, once users open their archives, they will have a nice graphical view of their tweets over the course of the last few years. Users also will have the ability to interact with their tweets just as if they were posted recently. That means you can go back and retweet yourself from Day One, if you so choose.

I?ve been excited about the potential of a Twitter archive for quite a while. Previously, I?ve tried to find websites that archive tweets, or tried to scroll a long way back in my timeline, only to hit the limit of only being able to view a limited number of tweets. I don?t know what my first tweet is, and I?d like to relive that. Moreover, I?d like to revisit the way that I interacted with some of those first ?magical moments? that made me fall in love with Twitter (the US Air ?crash? in the Hudson River where Capt. Chesley Sullenberger saved lives being the first big event, for me.) I?d like to see how I interacted with sporting events then, versus now.

In short, this Twitter archive is going to be like the journal (or diary) that I never kept. Twitter, for better or for worse, has been my monologue since I started using it in 2009. I?m pretty excited to get access to the archive (which as of Wednesday afternoon, hadn?t been activated for me yet.)

According to Twitter, the archive feature will be rolled out slowing over the coming weeks and months, starting this week with a small percentage of English users, and eventually making its way to users of all languages. To find the archive option, users will simply need to navigate to their settings within the Twitter web interface.

Source: http://www.zagg.com/community/blog/twitter-archive-will-be-like-the-diary-you-never-took-the-time-to-keep/

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