{"p":"","h":{"iv":"ROXSYW+cfvEbFHu5","at":"ocxplSQjdRC3tXEtB/9/wg=="}}

In advance of deleting my Twitter account, I made this web page that lets you search my tweets, link to an archived version, and read whole threads I wrote.

tinysubversions.com/twitter-ar

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.

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Gary Bunker :verified:

@darius That's brilliant!

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addie

@darius I would love an easy way to host this myself

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Cranky David

@darius
cc: @sethcotlar @KevinMKruse @jbf1755

you might want to keep an eye on this tool ☝️- it may prove very useful for #histodons for archiving your twitter work.

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Anarcho Doggo

@darius hell yeah, nice work. Was just chatting with organizers about wanting this exact thing for a variety of threatened antifascist research accounts. Pool all the archives together to make sure that info is not lost as accounts continue to be purged.

Tbh that model on a slightly larger scale for journalists, community organizers, researchers of all sorts... having a searchable static site version is just a huge win for maintainting these archives going forward.

Saving this post and definitely looking forward to checking out the source when you publish it; thanks again for sharing!

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Michael Donohoe :verified:

@darius If anyone wants to self-host their tweets, this generates a fairly simple static site github.com/donohoe/twitter-arc

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Molly White

@darius I was just wondering the other day if someone had built something like this!

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Terence Eden

@darius very interested in this!

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Erik Moeller

@darius

Thank you! I'd like to fully deactivate my account next year and this would come in very handy.

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Melissa Santos

@darius shit, maybe i should get my archive.

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waxmonkey

@darius rob lee on twitter @RALee85 needs this and he doesnt even know it yet

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Greg Wasserstrom

@darius I was hoping someone would do exactly this!

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Rick C-137

@darius brilliant

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psyBunny 🐰

@darius tried to do something like that but the archive turned to be something like 1.5gb, so not that feasible...

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Pat Dennis

@darius awesome

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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️

@darius cc: Brewster Kahle @brewsterkahle just tooted that the Internet Archive supports something similar:

mastodon.archive.org/@brewster

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fionaschlachter

@angilly Hey RyRy, you gonna make a web archive for your tweets?

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Darius Kazemi

I am getting various responses to this like, "Looking forward to your twitter archive creator! What happens with my twitter data when I upload it to your service? How do you expect me to upload a multi-gigabyte zip file?"

You don't know me very well. There is no upload at all. There's no service, no server. The data stays on your computer. Everything happens in the browser client :AngelDevil:

We are all so trained to assume that "web application" means "a server does the work"!

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@infosec_jcp 🆓🐦🐈🃏 done differently

@darius

That IS super useful Darius!!!! I'll be sure to check this out! 👍👍👍👍

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tltroup

@darius I'd like to try it!

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Ane Howard

@darius Good thinking

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