Archive for December 20, 2012

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Your Twitter Archive

Mollie Vandor:

Today, we’re introducing the ability to download your Twitter archive, so you’ll get all your Tweets (including Retweets) going back to the beginning. Once you have your Twitter archive, you can view your Tweets by month, or search your archive to find Tweets with certain words, phrases, hashtags or @usernames.

There’s supposed to be a “Request your archive” button at the bottom of the Settings page, but I don’t see it in my account. This feature hasn’t been rolled out to all users yet. I’ve been maintaining a local archive of my tweets using TweetNest.

Safari, Freedom, Alexander, and iBrowse

Don Melton (via Chris Foresman):

During the Summer of ’02, Steve Jobs and the Apple management team realized that we were going to pull this off — we could actually ship a Web browser by the end of the year. And at one particularly good Human Interface design session, discussion turned to what we were going to call this—thing.

AppShopper Removed From the App Store

Apple removed AppShopper, an app that helps track pricing changes in the App Store, because it violates the new rule 2.25:

Apps that display Apps other than your own for purchase or promotion in a manner similar to or confusing with the App Store will be rejected