Twitter begins testing tweet archive downloads with select users

Twitter silently started testing the highly anticipated tweet downloading feature that CEO Dick Costolo has repeatedly promised, but the feature appears to be running into problems already.

It’s finally here, the feature that many of us have been waiting for: Twitter has started rolling out the option to download your full history of tweets, all the way back to your very first one.

Twitter user @Philsophy found the feature the feature, according to TheNextWeb. At the moment, however, it apparently isn’t available to all users. In case you are one of the lucky first few users to have the feature turned on for your account, you can find out by browsing to your settings page. Look for a link to “Your Twitter Archive.” There, you can click on an option download your tweets. Twitter will send you an email notifying you of your request along with a zip file of the tweets attached in HTML form. Based on blogger Navjot Singh’s experience, the HTML file opens up a calendar-like interface that displays the archived tweets, which you can search through by month, as shown in the screenshot by Singh below.

Despite the pressure on Twitter’s engineers, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo appears to have pulled through with his promise, which he reiterated last month during a speaking engagement at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy. At the time, Costolo said, “Now, again, once again, I caveat this with the engineers who are actually doing the work don’t necessarily agree that they’ll be done by the end of the year, but we’ll just keep having that argument and we’ll see where we end up year end.”

Until now, users have only the option to download up to the 3,200 most-recent tweets using third party services, like TweetDownload.net.

Twitter confirmed with us that they were testing the archive downloading feature with a “small percentage” of users. But it appears that the social network is already under a heavy load. Twitter is having trouble rendering its pages, which were regularly crashing at the time of this writing.

Twitter declined to say exactly what was causing the page load problems. But Costolo warned during his speech that Twitter wasn’t built for searching and distributing archives: Searching through an archive using Twitter’s user database “would be so slow that it would slow down the rest of the real-time distribution of things,” he said. And it looks like this is exactly what was happening.

If the site in fact has been slowed down due to testing the archive download feature among just a few users, this would likely mean that the Twitter Archive functionality won’t be ready for prime time before the New Year rolls around.

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Move or Delete multiple files with Archive Manager | webOS Nation AndroidBlackBerryiPhone / iPadWindows PhonewebOS JOIN The #1 WEBOS COMMUNITY /   LOG IN     ArticlesForumsReviewsAccessory StoreTipsAppsThemesAbout   Move or Delete multiple files with Archive Manager 3 by Adam Marks Wed, 15 Aug 2012 7:08 pm EDT

While we have had file manager apps on webOS phones for a while since the release of the amazing Internalz / InternalzPro, one limitation of that app was that you could only act on one file at a time. If you wanted to move or delete multiple files, you had to go one-by-one. With the swipe-to-delete functionality of webOS, deleting a few files at one time wasn't a big deal, but anything more than a couple was quite a chore. The release of the TouchPad brought Gemini File Manager that allowed you to interact with multiple files, but you were still limited to one file at a time for webOS smartphones. Fortunately, Archive Manager by pcworldSoftware fills in this gap by allowing you to select multiple files and then choose which action you want to perform on those.  Unfortunately, since Archive Manager is a hybrid Mojo/PDK app, it will only run webOS phones running webOS 2.1 or higher, as well as the TouchPad.

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Navigate to the desired directory within Archive ManagerScroll through the files or folders and tap the checkbox on the right-side of the screen to select the file. Note that you can power-swipe in Archive Manager to quickly scroll to the top or bottom of the listingWhen finished selecting, tap the  button on the bottom of the screen, select "action" in the pop-up and then choose Move or DeleteIf you are moving files/folders, you will be presented with another screen to select the folder to move the files/folders toIf you are deleting files/folders, you will need to confirm the delete on a pop-up menu on the bottom of the screen.

Archive Manager is available in the webOS App Catalog for $1.99 and is compatible with all webOS devices running webOS 2.1 or higher.

Average: 0 Your rating: None 0 0 7 0 Category: TipsTags: Archive Manager,file manager,pcworldSoftware,tip a day 3 Comments Posted by kataran on Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:45 am EDT

outstanding....I bought this app a while back intent on archiving stuff but now I found a whole new use for it......

Login or register to post comments Posted by kataran on Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:46 am EDT

I use to have to connect to my laptop to move multi files but now its on the go

Login or register to post comments Posted by pcworld on Thu, 16 Aug 2012 5:10 pm EDT

By the way, my next app (which I'm going to submit today) will also support copying of multiple files. Maybe that feature will also make it into Archive Manager with some update.

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