This issue is fast turning into one of my pet peeves, hence the following rant.
Dear Facebook and Twitter,
I’m a active member of your sites. So active (productive even) in fact, that I have thousands of Tweets, likes, shared items, comments, you name it. I’m doing exactly what you want and need me to do. So why won’t you let me access them?!?!?! *pulls hair out*
Why is it, Facebook, that I can’t search my past activity? Why is it you won’t let me search wall posts I’ve received? Why is it there is nowhere I can go to view the comments I’ve made?
And Twitter, you’re no better. Thanks to you, I’ve had to resort to ‘favouriting’ my own tweets so I can find them when I need them.
(I mean, seriously, how insane is that?! Not to mention it makes me look like a complete egomaniac… *tsk*)
This might seem like a trivial issue to some, but there is a lot of information exchanged in micro-exchanges on both these services. Information directly related to and useful to me. And every once in a while, I need access to this information. It would be great to be able to perform a simple search and get the information I’m looking for. And I don’t understand why I can’t already do just that.
Living in the moment is great, but I would like the ability to wander down memory lane too.
I know what you mean. It makes sense for them to archive the data somewhere because there must be vast amounts, but it’s not helpful for us.
And shameless plug time, if you want to backup your tweets/favourites and export them to csv or pdf, you can use my service http://twitterscribe.com 😉
Oh, it’s definitely kept, just not made easily available.
Thanks for the headsup on twitterscribe. I did have a look at it some time ago, and decided then that I didn’t have any use for it. Might have a rethink 😉
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