mechanesthesia's dashboard

Any tweets/updates older than a month are not showing up! Not only that, but Twitter, in true Orwellian style make it looks like those tweets never even existed. It shows a message like "nothing found" but what it fails to tell you is that nothing is found because they only search for what you posted in the last month. Also gone into the "Orwellian memory hole" is "advanced search." Before the last update, you were able to do advanced search, but even that didn't work. It let you limit your search by date range. But it STILL wouldn't show anything past a month! So why even include that option! Now it seems to have just disappeared.
What kind of stupid idea is this? I don't even think a month is even that long for it to be considered "old." I think this whole "forced" expiration of tweets or better word for it: "planned obsolescence" is just stupid. I really don't understand why I can't search MY OWN Twitter site for something I posted a month ago. I really don't understand what is the point of it? Trying to keep things fresh?

WELL THAT'S WHY PEOPLE LOOK AT THE FIRST SEARCH RESULTS IN THE FIRST PAGE AND OLD ONES ARE AT THE END!

Maybe having "real-time search" works faster or better by limiting the searches?
Okay, that's fine, but what about giving us the SIMPLE option of clicking on something that says "search for older tweets."

I should be able to see all of my tweets when I do "from:myusername."

Is this simplicity, minimalism, or just plain laziness?
I think this is one of the reasons why the younger demographic has not embraced Twitter.
Twitter is trying to "repackage" itself as some kind of "master news feed" instead of the social network that it is. I don't understand why Twitter cannot cater to both, people that go to Twitter for news and updates on elections and Iran and people that use it for the main purpose it was made for: a social network/blog.

What is a blog? A blog is the internet version of a journal. Twitter is a "microblog" site where you make "small journal entries."
There are two types of blogs, news blogs and personal blogs.

But apparently Twitter doesn't know this. They want to focus on "news blogs" with their naive fantasy that we are all "mini news reporters" reporting activities around the world.
I'm sorry, I don't live in Iran, I didn't sign up to be an international reporter, I just want to write what's on my mind, in my life, and keep a record of it.

Apparently Twitter only wants you to write status updates about disposable news stories that are already "yesterday's news" within a few hours and stupid "pointless babble" about what you are eating or where you're going right now. Nothing with any depth or worth.
Forget haikus, interesting thoughts/insights, notes to yourself.

Twitter is the equivalent of someone who suffers from long-term memory loss, just living based on our short term memory, everything being new, and not retaining any information and "storing" any memories for later.

I really liked the idea of Twitter when I started using it. It was this fresh new "tool" which people used in different ways. When Twitter was still new, the big thing was finding different ways to used Twitter. Everyone had a different way of using Twitter. And there are many web articles around with fun and interesting ways to use Twitter.

I thought that I would use Twitter to keep track of my personal thoughts, ideas, goals, and "to-dos" as well as to share interesting things I find, like videos or news and such [but that was secondary].

I created hashtags to keep track of my tweets and organize them, such as:
#todo, #musrec: music recommendations from friends, #notes, #goals, #ideas, #thingstoget, #lookinto: things I wanted to research on, etc.

These are all things which I was not planning on doing "in a month or less" and frankly being imposed some kind of deadline really pisses me off.

I have bookmarks and notes scribbled all around my house of things that I want to do or read about later on when I have the time or some time in the future. I'm sure everyone does this. I wanted Twitter to be an organization of all these things. Something as simple as "I want to take a French class some time" or "#todo Read through some of your college textbooks" are not meant to be done "in a month or less" but are still valid in keeping track of your life.

I was using it in this way for a few months, until recently I found that things were just MISSING! That got me so mad, I felt like I was scammed in some way.
I spent all this time and energy putting my ideas into Twitter to organize things and create hashtags, and now I can't even find anything without scrolling through 60+ pages.

So to Twitter, I have to say, thanks for the big let-down and for alienating people just to change your "image."

Problem with Xmarks:
It seems that a basic problem is that Xmarks does not differentiate between different toolbars.
All the toolbars are the same regardless of the profile or computer you're on.
So Xmarks forces you to have the same toolbar for all profiles, which is impractical.

Either that or I'm doing something wrong, because whenever I add something to my toolbar, it shows on ALL of my profiles.