Importing your old Twitter-stream
I'm currently importing ~4.500 tweets back from my time 2010-12. Twitter is a perfect tool to leave a rich down-to-earth picture about one's life, just sometimes you'd like people to clean up their place so you can look few years back in time. =)
A little howto from my attemps:
A little howto from my attemps:
- fetch your tweets with tools like †(?/20121202) tweetake.com or http://backupmytweets.com . Some of these services (the latter) are advertising-sponsored and your stuff will be analysed by third parties, so you may want to check their privacy policy.
- then delete them if you like to
- you now have this one big comma-seperated table e.g., and export tweet+following timestamp to a long gray text-list
- in Linux,
tac FILE.txt
(tac = cat in a mirror, which lists file-content as it is; hence the name) will reverse its order (web-search for Windows: "reverse lines order") so that the list starts with the newest tweets - you finally go through everything one line after another, and remove all the silly snapshots of plans/moods etc. you were forced to write by Twitter, as it doesn't feature todo-lists, and people kinda expect the shit/this widget-like motivational blabbering :D
- dissolve every shortened reference (e.g. search for .ly, .me, .gl, .co, .gs etc.) and check for bad links with tools like KLinkStatus, LinkSidebar-addon or (Windows) Xenu's LinkSleugh. In broken URLs or ones you cannot research you remove http:// resp. https:// so that they're not being rendered as links (in LiveJournal e.g.), headed by the †-sign (†)
- cut+copy each e.g. 200 entries to a blog post, accompanied by a little intro telling people that this is from Twitter and the impression/overall meaning may vary etc.. The result is a summarizing post people can lay besides the other blog-entries, archived with the first tweet's date.