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January 4, 2012 • 10:05 am 0

TwitWipe – delete all your tweets at once

TwitWipe gives you that fresh start you always wanted to have by removing all, yes all, of your tweets.  There is no archiving with this tool, the writer really means that it simply Twitwipe logodeletes everything and gives you that fresh start.  Now I did find a conflict in one of the description paragraphs below:

Why not just delete the account and create a new one?

Doing so will create a new user id (the numeric id). It’s going to be a separate, new account. All your followers and followees and flurries will be gone! That’s why you should use TwitWipe, because it lets you keep all your followers, favorites and the people you’re following. If you’ve signed into any apps with your account, TwitWiping will keep all that intact. It’s like that memory eraser pen from M.I.B.!

As you see, in one line it says followers and such are gone too.  The next sentence says they stay.  So you have been warned if you lose followers.

It will take some time to run depending on how many tweets you have, so patience is a key in using the tool.  They recommend you leave it running overnight as necessary.  The site uses oAuth so no password information is stored and they joke that there should be no big deal, it is deleting everything anyway.

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March 11, 2010 • 11:55 am 0

Session Tweets – a daily digest of relevant hashtags

Session Tweets is an awesome idea, straight from the makers of Backupify (which service I use and recommend).  They take hashtags and put them together as a collection into an emailed PDF file.  So if there is a conference, session, seminar or hot trend, you can get an emailed version of the entire day.

The site homepage has the most recently created, then by date.  At the bottom you can suggest some tags to have a report created.  I can see this being huge during SXSWi in the coming days.  Backupify is even tying this in nicely with the promo free year of the Premium service.  SXSW will have a Session Tweets Daily edition coming out you can subscribe to.

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September 21, 2009 • 1:00 pm 0

Tweetbook.in: Archive Your Tweets and Favorites Into a PDF

Tweetbook.in is the latest service to help you archive your tweets. Unlike most, Tweetbook saves your tweets in PDF format for easy reading and sharing. The services not only supports your tweets, but also your favorites. You can even share the PDF files right from the service. Tweets seem to go back only as far as a week, though this could be dependent upon how much you’re tweeting and how many tweets the service is able to pull due to API restrictions.

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August 14, 2009 • 8:32 am 0

ootweet – archive favorite tweets and discussions

ootweet is a beta site that allows you to archive your favorite tweets and even Twitter discussions.  It also has voting on the tweets to help give them rise on the frontpage, much like Digg would for articles. Authentication is via oAuth and let me right in.

I did like the fact that they have a bookmarklet to make adding to ootweet simple.  The downside, if you didn’t guess, is that you must use the Twitter web interface an open an individual status/tweet to use it.

Some categories allow sorting, such as clash, fail and joke.  The avatars of everyone in the discussion are also shown as well as the flow of Twitter names that participated.  Recent users of the system as shown at the bottom of the page allowing you to click through to see the discussions.

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June 22, 2009 • 8:25 am 0

BackupMyTweets – in a variety of formats

BackupMyTweets joins a couple of the other backup services we highlighted built around the fact that Twitter doesn’t store your tweets forever.  First things, it is free and does not require your Twitter password.

You have the choice to tweet whether you used the service or not.  I chose not.  You then authenticate at Twitter via OAuth and it will send you a direct message with a link to get the backup.

I was able to download in HTML, JSON or xml making it easy to manipulate the data or just save it for later.  Go get your stuff before it vanishes into the ether.

Filed under: Archiving,

June 19, 2009 • 10:42 am 1

TwapperKeeper – organize tweets based on hashtags (very beta)

TwapperKeeper is a young site trying to help you organize your own tweets using hashtags.  It is a bright and very bland UI but the idea has promise as people pour more data into Twitter.

They are now whitelisted which allows them to poll ever 5 minutes and build an archive on your Twapper tags.  You then get not only an archive but folders for such things as news and presentations as it looks at keywords in tweets.

You can see a sample twapper right here.  They aren’t letting you delete one you create yet, so be careful there.

Filed under: Archiving, ,

June 19, 2009 • 8:22 am 1

PrintYourTweet – kill a tree

PrintYourTweet is a new service that offers a few choices for saving old tweets.  They ask the very important question:

Why?

  • Print a diary of your tweets.
  • Archive your tweets on your computer.
  • Add tweets & twitpics to your holiday photos.
  • Surprise your friends with their tweet journal.
  • New: Save/print keyword searches on twitter.com

So if you have a good reason for printing my tweets, go for it.  I agree archiving is a nice service but that about covers it.  You use your Twitter username and password for authentication, but I didn’t have the energy to give this a shot and kill a few saplings.

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May 20, 2009 • 2:30 pm 0

Tweleted – recover deleted Twitter messages

I know exactly why Tweleted has both a good and evil mode that you can use.  This could be dangerous stuff they coded.  It compares the public timeline through the API with what they get back in Twitter search (which apparently doesn’t remove deleted tweets!?!?!) and then shows the difference.  The difference should be what was deleted by you or some Twitter system crash.

Based on their estimates, they go back about 4 months or 1000 tweets.  The best part is you can search on any Twitter username.

Are you storing the messages I’ve deleted?!
No. All the processing of messages is happening on your own computer — I’m not even storing a record of which usernames have been searched for, let alone the messages that have appeared. This site isn’t doing anything special — it’s just automating what was always possible manually.

So you ask how the heck to get rid of that dangerous tweet of yours from the search?  He answers that with the Twitter FAQ link.  After you do a search you are able to verify it was a deleted one by clicking the >> next to it.  Sometimes Twitter is moving slow and the API calls get confused.

The test I did

I left it in good mode and was shocked what I saw using my test victim.  This big time person had mistakenly tweeted a “s” instead of a “d” to send a direct message with their cell number.  They deleted it from the stream and resent it as direct, I am sure.  But it still showed up here.  Spooky indeed.  So now to evil mode…  (evil laugh here)

LOL, it changes the background from pretty blue sky and clouds to red flames.  Nothing to see, move along.

Filed under: Archiving, ,

August 12, 2008 • 9:14 am 2

TweeTake – When you must have your info stored locally

If you can’t trust Twitter to actually restore all your followers, friends and whatever (such as seen in a recent outage), then TweeTake will help you suck it all down into an Excel spreadsheet.

The tool worked well and they bring up a couple good points after asking yourself, why in the heck would you want to do this:

  • Twitter doesn’t keep tweets forever folks.  Looks like 90 days is the cutoff, so all the old tweets go poof
  • If you want to switch username and still follow the same people, this would make life much easier.

So give it a shot. Keep in mind they ask for your username and password.

Filed under: Archiving,

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