{"id":1331,"date":"2009-11-03T15:19:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T14:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2015-03-20T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T20:53:34","slug":"how-to-backup-your-twitter-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/how-to-backup-your-twitter-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Backup your Twitter World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you probably learnt by experience, Twitter Search only shows results for the last couple of days. <\/p>\n<p>I guess, one of the preliminary assumptions is that you consider your collection of 140-character-long phrases valuable. And would like to search thru them from time to time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friendfeed<\/strong><br \/>\nOne easy workaround is to add <a href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed.com\/search?q=from%3Anchenga+malawi+twitter\">your Twitter stream into Friendfeed<\/a>. Friendfeed &#8211; currently in a difficult interim situation since the Facebook announcement &#8211; still has the best real-time search. It is a great way to archive your tweets and make them searchable. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Import OPML file into Google Reader<\/strong><br \/>\nThese days, bloggers don&#8217;t talk much about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OPML\">OPML<\/a> anymore. OPML files (and the legitimate re-use thereof) were widely discussed in the early days of the Swiss blogosphere. <\/p>\n<p>It seems many apps try to shield us from the underlying technical issues regarding import\/export and backups. <\/p>\n<p>Dave Winer shows how to extract the feeds of your Twitter world using an OPML tool.<\/p>\n<p>My Twitter world is accessible at http:\/\/tw.opml.org\/get?user=nchenga&#038;folder=1.<\/p>\n<p>Next, I can download this file to my desktop. <\/p>\n<p>And upload it into Google Reader:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to <strong>Manage Subscriptions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Import\/Export<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Select your OPML file and click <strong>Upload<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It puts all of the newly imported feeds into a separate folder. ReadWriteWeb has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/how_to_backup_and_search_all_your_friends_tweets_i.php\">detailed how to<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe only downside is that you don&#8217;t want to re-read all of the tweets in your Google Reader. Especially if you&#8217;re reading other RSS streams within the same account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Offline RSS Reader<\/strong><br \/>\nYou can use the OPML file to create an offline backup within your favorite desktop RSS reader. I use the feed reader in Opera 10 to pull a copy of my RSS feeds together. Advantage: doesn&#8217;t interfere with my online reading. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Twistory<\/strong><br \/>\nAnother fun tool is <a href=\"http:\/\/twistory.net\/\">Twistory<\/a>, which adds your Twitter prose to your Google Calendar. It offers an iCal feed. And you can time events by adding t and \/t to your posts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Timetracking tagging: start your tweets with both t or \/t and Twistory will keep track of what you&#8217;re doing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chiperoni\/4072197214\/\" title=\"Twistory by nchenga, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2620\/4072197214_1505fb6d1b_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"108\" alt=\"Twistory\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you probably learnt by experience, Twitter Search only shows results for the last couple of days. I guess, one of the preliminary assumptions is that you consider your collection of 140-character-long phrases valuable. And would like to search thru them from time to time. Friendfeed One easy workaround is to add your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1,9],"tags":[469,471,106,320,470,468,472],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger","category-general","category-tech","tag-dave-winer","tag-friendfeed","tag-google-reader","tag-opera","tag-opml","tag-twistory","tag-twitter-backup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-lt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}