09 Jun 09 Oldtweets – Browse your old tweets

Tags: oldtweets, twitter

Twitter hasn’t exactly made it easy to read your old tweets. Sure, you can just click on “more”, but it doesn’t go all the way back (only 40 pages) according to Twitter’s blog. And seriously, who has the time to click on “more” so much? There is services like TweetDumpr that dumps only 3200 tweets in .csv file.

For a blog post, I wanted to go back and to see what I tweeted about in the beginning of the year (that blog post is still coming). There is a way with Twitter URL manipulation to browse your old tweets, but this meant, you had to fiddle with the URL the whole time. I then looked on the net to see if I could find an app that I could use to my browse my twitter past… I couldn’t. So I made my own one. For a lack of a better word, it is called Oldtweets.

I first wanted to display your whole profile in an iframe and then manipulate the URL with an iframe, but Twitter is not friends with iframes. I then delved into the API and found a way around it.

Using the API, I also got the “last page” of tweets, so you can go check out your first ever tweet and all in between.

I made this quickly last night, just to get it out. I am going to hopefully make it more stylish in the future.

Enjoy browsing your old tweets!

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P.S. I now have a looong holiday ahead of me. I have a new website launching tomorrow. Another definite I am going to try and do is add OAuth support for Tweekly.fm. More blogging too.