According to ReadWriteWeb, Twitter has saved all of our updates, which means it’s sitting on a mountain of 140-character (or less) messages that have different degrees of value.
The problem is getting access to your data is far from user-friendly, although Twitter contends you can find them by doing a search.
What I’d like (and I’m sure many other people and companies would like too0 – is a user-friendly, intuitive way to find, filter, categorize and share my data. Over the past two years, for example, I’ve shared hundreds of links to interesting content and online services. (Well, I think they’ve been interesting).
But there’s no easy way to see all of these links in totality or by category, timeframe or topic. I also want to see how much activity each of those links has attracted in terms of number of clicks, people, geography and time.
From what I can tell, the data being stored by Twitter will likely be leveraged to launch premium analytics tools to individuals and companies to do all the things I have outlined. It makes perfect sense from a revenue perspective, and will give Twitter a solid business model.
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Mark, While it won't cover your old tweets I recommend importing your Tweets into your blog. Two plug-ins make this easy. "Feed WordPress" and "Category Exclusion". The first enables you to import Tweets into your blog. The second lets you exclude them from your home page, and archives. Seems pointless until you want to search your blog for all your content. Then you search your twitter posts as well. The same can be done with other content if required.