I’ve been keeping backups of my Twitter posts for a while now — after more than five years, I’ve built up a decent amount of babble, and some of the things I’ve posted are things I’d like to remember. (I’d also like to forget some of the things I’ve posted, but that’s a lot easier.) In fact, I’ve been using Twitter for long enough that I’m pretty sure I repeat myself on a regular basis without realizing it.
In the interest of boosting my memory and not junking the internet up with the same observation made over and over again, I built a dumb little tool to mine my own tweet data: Josh’s Twitter Index.
![[Twindex Screenshot]](http://joshleejosh.com/sketches/twindex/screenshot.jpg "Twindex Screenshot")
I probably won’t stop tweeting about burritos any time soon, because burritos are always important. But hopefully, being able to see all the times I’ve previously posted about a topic will at least help me to avoid some other, more tired subjects.
Very cool! Burritos are indeed very important.
How easily can this code search other twitter accounts, and would you be open to releasing it?
Thanks! The code doesn’t actually search accounts — it searches a big ugly file full of old tweets that I generated with a script. If people are interested, I might clean up the code for the page and the backup script and post it all somewhere.