twitter diary

Hello

This is an application for putting all the tweets you've ever made onto one big page, so you can read them like a diary... or search/filter them more easily

AND I HAVEN'T FINISHED WRITING IT YET.

Here's an example - my entire tweet history. There's laughter, tears, good times, bad times etc

All you need to do is follow @twitoscope, and it will do the rest. It will send you a tweet when it's all set up (will probably take an hour or two - there's quite a serious limitation on the twitter API).

Once it's set up, it checks with twitter to find new tweets each time you visit - so should be fairly fast, although if you talk a lot the page will be quite big.

Your URL will be http://www.twitoscope.com/[username]

F.A.Q

Do you cache all the tweets?

Yes - this is the only way of delivering the whole lot in a single page. Each time you visit the page, it updates

How do I delete myself?

Unfollow @twitoscope

How do I set myself up?

follow @twitoscope - it will send you a message when it's ready (takes an hour or two)

Can I set up someone else's tweet diary?

Nope. Too stalky

Can I look at someone else's diary if they've set it up?

If they haven't password-protected it yes. It's all public on Twitter anyway, it's just not that easy to see in one place

So I can I password-protect my diary then?

Yes

Does this use the same password that I use for twitter?

No - make up a new one. Sharing passwords between applications is a bit dodgy if you ask me.

So how do I set a password then?

Send a private twitter message containing
password=[new_password]

What if I decide I don't want a password after all?

Send a private twitter message containing the word public

So what will happen when someone like Robert Scoble who has about 20,000 tweets and who's fairly talkative uses this?

It will break? I don't know.

I personally have about 3500 tweets - which comes to 575kb... I guess this means he will have a 3mb page - will take quite a long time to pull down and might screw up the search JS. I think I might make a thing that limits it by year or something... so it doesn't search all by default. Shame though. I like having everything on one page.

Can this act as a backup for my tweets?

Yes - but I can't be responsible for your backups - you should download them with the link provided. The reason I wrote this app was to backup my tweets though. Twitter makes this difficult

I can download them?

Yes. They are afterall your tweets. You can store them where you like.

The search is kindof crap in Opera isn't it?

Yea - Shame. Opera is one of my main browsers as well.

Does this work in IE6?

I've no idea.

Your CSS sucks. Can I use my own?

Yes - send a message saying css=[http://path_to_css etc]

Is there anything I can help with?

Yes - I have neither the wit nor the time to figure out how to get jQuery to do a case insensitive version of :
$("div:contains('" + $('#str').val() + "')").show();