Darius KazemiDec 16, 2022

In advance of deleting my Twitter account, I made this web page that lets you search my tweets, link to an archived version, and read whole threads I wrote.

https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/

I will eventually release this as a website I host where you drop your Twitter zip archive in and it spits out the 100% static site you see here. Then you can just upload it somewhere and you have an archive that is also easy to style how you like it.

@tinysubversions Twitter archive

Show threadChris Silverman 🌻Dec 16, 2022
@darius this is absolutely amazing. I was looking at Tweetback, which also looks good, but that requires npm/eleventy, which I'm less familiar with. Looking forward to when/If you release this.
Show threadDarius KazemiDec 16, 2022
@csilverman yeah I wanted just a big zip file of flat files you could serve!
Show threadChris Silverman 🌻Dec 16, 2022
@darius curious, does it display a full list of tweets, like an archive, or do you have to search for something in particular?
Show threadDarius KazemiDec 16, 2022
@csilverman it doesn't. is there a good way to display hundreds of thousands of things for browsing? I feel like search is the best way to access this stuff but I'm open to suggestions
Show threadChris Silverman 🌻Dec 16, 2022

@darius The best approach I can think of would be something like a blog, where there's X number of tweets on the frontpage and pagination below that (personally I've never been a fan of the infinite scrolling approach).

Search is useful mainly for me, if I'm trying to find something I remember sharing, but my use case here is a preserved archive of posts that others can browse—again, like a microblog.

Show threadChris Silverman 🌻Dec 16, 2022
@darius Completely understand if that's not what your intention is with this, and I have no idea how hard that would be to build. Basically, I'm pretty close to leaving Twitter—or getting suspended, who even knows these days—and since my Twitter account was kind of an important aspect of my online presence, I wanted to preserve it in a form that's easy for other people to read. Maybe that's really more what Tweetback is for, though.
Show threadDarius Kazemi
@csilverman yeah I think tweetback is more of a like "I want to turn my twitter into a blog" project, mine is really mostly for personal use along with the ability for me to link stuff I wrote in places like fediverse
Dec 16, 2022 at 8:21amWeb