How to Read All Tweets

View all the Tweets of a Twitter user on a single page with third-party Web applications.

The default Twitter user page does not provide a simple interface for reading all the Tweets that belong to you or another Twitter user. Tweets are displayed in reverse chronological order and only 20 Tweets can be displayed at a time. Thanks to the ease with which third parties can create applications that access Twitter data, there are a surplus of Web services that enable you to easily view the entire timeline of a Twitter user to quickly scan their entire Tweet archive.

Instructions

All My Tweets

1. Launch a Web browser.

2. Navigate to AllMyTweets.net.

3. Type the username of the Twitter account you would like to view in the text box and click "Get Tweets."

TwimeMachine

1. Launch a Web browser.

2. Navigate to TwimeMachine.com.

3. Click "Sign in with Twitter."

4. Sign in to your Twitter account and then click "Authorize App."

5. Click "Oldest Tweets" to start reading all your Twitter updates from the beginning.

SnapBird

1. Launch a Web browser.

2. Navigate to SnapBird.org.

3. Click "Authenticate with Twitter."

4. Sign in to your Twitter account and click "Authorize App."

5. Type the user name of the Twitter account you would like to view in the "Who?" text box and click "Find It." SnapBird will load the last 200 Tweets on a single page and you can easily load additional Tweets by clicking "Load More" at the bottom of the page.

References

• ReadWriteWeb; 10 Ways to Archive Your Tweets; Sarah Perez; August 2009
• The Next Web; SnapBird Helps You Find Old Tweets and Messages by Going Where Twitter Search Can't: Months Back; Adam Mills; November 2010

Resources

• All My Tweets
• TwimeMachine
• SnapBird