The other day, I decided to save the tweets from the entertaining Twitter feed of the Mars Curiosity rover (@MarsCuriosity) in case I needed it for my dissertation. Saving the tweets became important to me because I remembered this post from MIT’s Technology Review blog which warns of history “vanishing” (at least the history recorded by Twitter) because of the fleeting nature of tweets.
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Regardless of whether or not history can “vanish” due to the digital nature of tweets, I still didn’t want to leave it to chance that the @MarsCuriosity feed would still be there when I needed it. NASA, being a government agency, is also quite good at leaving paper trails of everything, but nonetheless I looked for a way to save the tweets for my own dissertation archive. Along the way, I came across some information about the Library of Congress’s project to archive tweets, as well as methods for saving tweets from your own Twitter feed that I thought I’d share.
The Library of Congress Preserves Tweets
Twitter has become more than just a medium for people letting their friends know what they're up to. News organizations, celebrities, governments, and others use Twitter for disseminating information to large numbers of people - many of these feeds may be of interest to scholars. One of the problems with using Twitter as a researcher, though, is that Twitter is a fleeting medium - tweets. 10/2018 - Produced, and continue to update, the only archive in the entire industry of state-backed information operations; 1/2019 - Issued a comprehensive review of our efforts to protect the 2018 U.S. Midterms; 6/2019 - Launched public interest notice and defined our approach on public interest.
One of the things that I read about in my search is the Library of Congress’s project to preserve tweets. This project is part of an initiative for digital preservation, and in 2010 Twitter donated its collection of public tweets to the Library. I wasn’t able to find a way to save the tweets that I wanted through investigating the Library of Congress’s project, but at least I felt legitimated in my desire to archive tweets. The collection is only going to be available in Washington, D.C. — and, they’re not yet available either, since we’re talking about thousands of terabytes of information. If you’re interested in reading more about the collection, this FAQ from the Library is a good place to start.
Saving Your Own Tweets
If it’s your own Twitter feed you’re wanting to preserve, it’s not too hard to archive your tweets, and searching on Google provided me with lots of different choices. This article outlines ways of saving your own tweets to a database. It looks a little complicated, but the article claims that it’s not as hard as it sounds. If you have Evernote, the nifty application that lets you save just about everything, you can follow these instructions to have your tweets automatically saved to Evernote. Here are a few more suggestions — you may want to save tweets from your own feed if you use Twitter for a class and want to save a copy of the feed off of Twitter’s servers.
Aha! Saving Tweets from Any Twitter Feed
Izotope rx 7 audio editor advanced 7 01 crack. Using All My Tweets ended up being my solution for saving the @MarsCuriosity feed.
Unfortunately the above solutions didn’t work for me, since I’m not the administrator of the feed that I want to save. After googling around and reading several articles, I discovered that there’s no one solution to saving tweets. I ended up using a method of my own, as it seemed easier than the methods I’d read about:
- Find the Twitter feed you want to save. In my case, it’s @MarsCuriosity.
- Go to the site All My Tweets. This site lets you enter in a Twitter username, and it will display all the tweets for that feed.
- Enter the Twitter username you’re interested in and click “Get Tweets.” The page will load all the tweets from that Twitter feed.
- Collect the tweets. I clipped the webpage using Evernote, since I use it to collect dissertation research. You could also save the webpage using your browser, save it as a PDF, or copy and paste it into a word processor.
I saved this screenshot along with the All My Tweets page so that I could preserve some of the “color” of the original @MarsCuriosity Twitter page.
This method isn’t perfect, but it worked for my purposes. One of the things that it doesn’t do, is it doesn’t automatically collect tweets as they appear. To make up for this I’ll just go back at a later date and re-collect the feed if I need it. Another downside to this method is that All My Tweets doesn’t show any of the details of a Twitter feed’s page (i.e. avatars, background images, etc.). To make up for that, I saved a screen capture of the @MarsCuriosity Twitter feed.
Of course, now that I have my collection of @MarsCuriosity tweets for my dissertation, the question is — how do I cite them? (Thankfully, it turns out that it’s way easier than archiving them is!)
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Twitter has rolled out the next stage of its algorithmic timeline, forcing a non-chronological selection of tweets to the top of users' feeds. Anyone wanting 'Twitter Classic', will need to manually opt out of the new default setting.
Twitter has been slowly switching users over to the new format since at least 15 March. The latest documentation change adds: 'Tweets you are likely to care about most will show up first in your timeline. We choose them based on accounts you interact with most, Tweets you engage with, and much more.'
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Visit the official Twitter app on Android or iOS or visit your feed on the website, and you'll now find a collection of tweets from people Twitter thinks you interact with most, rather than the traditional linear view of tweets as they were posted. Currently, third-party apps continue to use time-posted order.
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Just over a month ago, the feature was rolled out on an opt-in basis, with senior engineering manager Mike Jahr explaining the feature on the official blog. 'When you open Twitter after being away for a while, the Tweets you're most likely to care about will appear at the top of your timeline - still recent and in reverse chronological order. The rest of the Tweets will be displayed right underneath, also in reverse chronological order, as always,' Jahr wrote.
The change to an algorithm-driven feed has not been welcomed by some users of the social network, but while it is the new default view, it is simple to deactivate.
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To disable the feature and restore (chronological) order, you'll need to dive into your account settings. On iOS, tap through Timeline, then Timeline Personalisation, then turn 'Show me the best Tweets first' off. On Android, the option is directly under the Timeline setting. On the web, you'll need to click 'Profile and Settings' (the little icon on the top right of your homepage when logged in), then Settings, and uncheck the option under 'Content'. You'll need to re-enter your password to save the changes here, too.
CEO Jack Dorsey had previously moved to allay user fears of a Facebook-style forced feed, tweeting on 6 February 'Twitter is live. Twitter is real-time. Twitter is about who & what you follow. And Twitter is here to stay! By becoming more Twitter-y.'
Dorsey also tweeted that 'We never planned to reorder timelines next week', after users had adopted the hashtag #RIPTwitter following rumours of an algorithmic rollout. He wasn't fibbing - it just took more than a week.