Comments on: Twittephemeraliness

By: Heather D.

Heather D. — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:24:23 +0000

It’d be neat to have some kind of event tracker that pulls together tweets and images (like tweme?), but also shows a list of current events and their locations. Maybe people could rate events or provide feedback through that too, as a way of capturing experiences in multiple ways (and with a way to export it, of course).

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:25:21 +0000

twitter, tweets, twemes,… I tend to agree with Flip, Twitter is used by so many users as a social micro-blog, that the volume of information produced overwhelms the usefulness of it as a communication tool. Until I read your blog, it never occurred to me that anything from twitter would be even worth preserving.

By: Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagarne — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:14:52 +0000

As a newish Twitter user, thanks for the heads up. I’m still not sure what to make of it all, and the thought of it being here today, gone tomorrow, even on the Internet…I never would have thought of it. Time to load up the favorites bar.

By: Flip

Flip — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:33:33 +0000

Seriously — how much data do you intend to ‘squirrel’ away. Live in the moment. Twitter is a ‘social’ medium, not an archival device.

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Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:04:34 +0000

[…] Librarian, Jenny Levine, found out, hashtags seem to have a limited lifespan in Twitter search. Read her blog post for how she gets around […]

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:04:53 +0000

remember to do a search of keyword site:tweeter.com

Google keeps an archive of pages for a while, so even if it disappeared from its original place, you can still find it many times doing a search directly on Google.

By: @dereknp81

@dereknp81 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:54:11 +0000

Hi Jenny,

It is strange how tweets seem to appear and disappear as the tubes get plugged. Here’s a possible long-term solution to make Twitter as little less disposable.

Go to alerts.google.com and use this syntax: site:twitter.com/*/status/ #hashtag

An earlier commenter was on the right track using the “site:” Google operator, but you need to add the status & wildcard to get just tweets.

Of course with alerts you have to set them up BEFORE the conference, event, etc. or at least before Google indexes the tweets (As short as two hours, look for this time to get even shorter as Twitter search is touted as a competitor for Google.) In my test of this I set my type of alert to comprehensive, and time span to “daily”, and my results equaled search.twitter.com, delivered right to my email. Glad to forward it if that’s confusing at all…

Hope that helps