Does the twitter archive ever auto-delete tweets after a certain time period?

For now, Twitter doesn't auto-delete tweets (my oldest tweet is still there and it goes all the way back to Sep 2006).

But on the off-chance that Twitter one day starts to purge the old stuff, I've set up a LoudTwitter account. LoudTwitter creates a daily blogpost on my blogspot blog that contains all the tweets I made in the past 24 hours. So I automatically get a new blog entry on my blog once a day, and I've got my own copy of my tweets stored.

Another service that I know if is Tweetdumpr. This service creates a .csv file that contains a complete dump of all your tweets. It only works with public accounts, though.

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I'm not sure of this, but I was always under the impression that Google Reader doesn't actually save a copy of the feed contents. Meaning, if Twitter were to remove the RSS feed tomorrow, Google Reader would show an empty feed. But as I said, I'm not sure if this is the case.

Well it now seems twitter doesn't let you look past page 10 of your tweets! I a bit of warning would have been nice! I really hope I haven't lost all my tweets past page 10 now :(

I lost about a hundred tweets because of this feature. Not good.

I like Twitter, but am also frustrated by the disappearing older tweets. If Loudtwitter ever stops working, I'll quit Twitter that same day.

(Correction to my previous post -- I lost about *five* hundred tweets. Argh!)

They aren't DELETED, they're just more difficult to access. You can search (http://search.twitter.com/) for specific things and see that they do come up. I can find really old tweets by searching for "keyword, my username."

I AM irritated that I still can't just keep clicking the older button to access my archives though--I've been asking about this for something like two months now and still haven't really gotten an answer from Twitter. When is this going to be fixed?!

It seems like half the time you can't get near 10 pages; I've seen days where I couldn't go beyond one page, but usually it seems to be 3-4 pages. Distressing.

We've started to offer download of your personal Twitter archives. This can include not only your messages but also replies. The service is not free but we think it'll be worth it for many people. It operates by using our own index of tweets that we've captured since Dec 2007. If the archive API is reliable we'll see how we can incorporate that. The url is https://www.tweetscan.com/data.php

Hello. I just stumbled across http://tweetake.com -- it lets you download your followers list, your friends list, your last 1000 tweets (at least that's what it gave me when I tried it), and your favorites. No charge.

It uses the Twitter API, so you'll need to login with your Twitter username and password. If you're worried about security, I suggest you change your password to a throw-away password before using Tweetake, then change it back to your real password afterwards.

Also, since it uses the API, and we're only allowed 100 requests per hour on the API, I suggest you close any third-party apps that you may be using for an hour before trying to use this, so you don't run out of API calls.

On numerous occasions I have found Tweets going back only 9 days. Most likely they are simply not available as Twiitter has limited space - but at certain times may become available. In the future Twitter may in fact delete older Tweets.

hey guys. i created a website that lets you download xml or txt versions of all your tweets. check it out and tell me if you have any suggestions...definitely still a work in progress. url is http://www.thesocialarchive.com/

I'm frustrated too. I created a "Twitter-A-Book-System" that is simple and worked great... as long as people using twitter could go into advanced search, put in their keyword and a date range. I heard Twitter was going to limit retrieval and to my horror that any posts older than 14 days are not accessible. Like many here, I've tried contacting Twitter to no avial. I've tried Tweeting the two twitter founders; no answer. I've tried calling; the phone rings forever and no one picks it up. I've posted at least 3 support tickets and I get canned answers that don't relate. TWITTER, YOUR BUSINESS SKILLS NEED AN "EXTREME MAKEOVER"!!

I tried the Tweetlater RSS feed in Google reader but am unable to go back to the beginning of my journal (I"m 5 weeks in and tweet it on T/W/T/F). Maybe I just don't know how Google reader works; it seems I should be able to retrieve every Tweet sent to it but so far I can't figure it out.

My option now is to use something like LoudTwitter and resend all my journal tweets from the beginning to that blog (over a 1000 tweets now). If anyone is interested (especially programmers) in checking out how the Twitter-A-Book-System works you can go to: http://intro.3circles.net (it's NOT a program at this point but could be; right now it's just a system for keeping track and making the tweets readable).

Leroy Grey
Twitter: 3CC_Community

We recently released a new service called TwapperKeeper that will archive based upon hash tags... you establish a hash tag and we search twitter for that hash tag and archive it every 5 minutes.

It also allows for additional actions to be included in tweets that can organize the tweets into 5 user defined folders. (i.e. include !P in the tweet to say this is a *presentation*, include !M for *must read*, etc -> all defined when the hashtag is established).

It is in its infancy - and we are looking for your feedback!

Take a look @ http://www.twapperkeeper.com

v/r,
John
http://twitter.com/jobrieniii