A constant refrain from this blog is the inability to dive deep into Twitter’s archives for tweets from the past. Apparently, Twitter is working on this feature but until it arrives, getting access to archives is a frustrating exercise.
A new player in the Twitter archive market is SnapBird, which is offering a new service to find the tweets of a particular user beyond Twitter’s current 10-day archive. For example, if you wanted to see what TechCrunch had to say on Twitter about Microsoft’s Bing search engine, you would submit “techcrunch” and “bing” into the two search fields.
SnapBird then produces recent results, along with an option to search back further. In an ideal world, SnapBird would provide the option of seeing all the results at the same time.
As well, it would be great to do searches without having to include a particular user – in other words, just use SnapBird as a Twitter search engine. For now, however, SnapBird has some value but the need to search for someone’s tweets makes the service somewhat limiting.
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I like it. If only there was a way to retrieve even the deleted tweets that someone disposed of.