I make things that go on the Internet. I live in Brooklyn and design at How to Find Really Old Tweets
Twitter used to have a paginated URL setup for viewing old tweets. The new “more” button that loads updates in-line is fine but what happens if you want to go way back to an even older tweet?
You used to be able to find it through Twitter advanced search by specifying the user (you) and searching for keywords or within time frames. Doing that now shows that even Twitter search doesn’t go back farther than a week or two.
Are your old tweets dead? Not dead, but buried. Using the following mobile URL structure you can go back in time:
http://twitter.com/account/profile.mobile?page=152&user=jmdickinson
Just replace “jmdickinson” with your username. It’s not precise but if you go to a random page you get an idea of where you are in history so you can increase/decrease to eventually find what you want.
This sucks. Why can’t I just page through all my old tweets? I bet they’re accessible via the API, why not the twitter site?
