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
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]
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();