In advance of deleting my Twitter account, I made this web page that lets you search my tweets, link to an archived version, and read whole threads I wrote.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.
My tool for making a simple, searchable, themeable archive of your public tweets and threads is now live:
https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/
The tool runs entirely on your computer, in your browser. None of your data is uploaded anywhere in the process. The output is a zip file of a basic HTML website that you can upload to a web host if you choose.
The site also answers most of the common questions I get. Please read it first before asking me questions here!
@aliendial @darius As Darius said, yes. I'm in the process of proving whether unzipping the archive and uploading it to something like Netlify will Just Work.
(It's astonishing how long it's taking to upload 30MB of files on gigabit fiber… I suspect the "Drop" page code at Netlify isn't optimized for sites with 13,000 files.)
@darius @aliendial It did finish after about 20 minutes.
And we're live at https://tweets.dgw.me 🥳
@darius Actually, I have a couple questions after poking around my archive a bit:
1) My Twitter profile says I have 30-odd thousand tweets, but the archive only includes some 13k files at (presumably) one file per tweet. What happened there?
2) Is there no way to look at tweets without searching for something? The search box seems pretty finicky, i.e. sometimes partial words match and sometimes not.
Darius Kazemi
aliendial
dgw