How to Backup Your Twitter Stream
Our twitter stream provides a unique insight into what’s happening in life. For some, their twitter stream is filled with minute details like the fact that you are having your first cup of coffee for the day (Breakfast Blend) and that the temperature outside is 22 degrees. For others, it proves to be a log of your reading trends and interesting facts that come across your information stream.
I fall into the last category.
This morning the idea hit me that I should find a way to archive my twitter stream and post it on my website. Not that it will be of any great significance in years to come, but it may prove interesting.
After some quick searches, I landed on TweetBackup.com. It couldn’t be easier to begin. Simply enter your twitter account credentials and in a few minutes you have a complete backup of every tweet you have sent. In my case, my first tweet was on May 29, 2008. Interesting. Like all similar services, TweetBackup is limited to 3200 tweets, which is the maximum number allowed by Twitter’s API.
Here are a couple of things I wish I could do with my twitter stream that I haven’t found a way to accomplish (yet):
- I wish I could automatically update my archive page with the latest tweets using an RSS feed or something similar.
- I wish TweetBackup had an easy way to archive hashtags. It may be possible, but I haven’t found a way, yet.
How about you? Do you archive your twitter stream? Is it available on your website?