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“Unfortunately, we didn’t have Twitter back then,” Popik says. “If we had Twitter, I’d be able to pin this down to the exact day and exact hour.” Why, is Twitt
by akkartik 9y ago
“Unfortunately, we didn’t have Twitter back then,” Popik says. “If we had Twitter, I’d be able to pin this down to the exact day and exact hour.”
Why, is Twitter search able to go back more than 2 weeks this Wednesday? Any wagers on what the look-behind horizon will be in a hundred years? No odds offered for "0".
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/can-twitter-fit-inside-the-library-of-congress/494339 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/can-t...
- monocasa 9y agoIsn't that just the public search? All the tweets are still there and indexed; Twitter is just trying to monetize by restricting access to metrics.
- jpindar 9y agoIt goes back a few years. I've been able to find tweets from 2009. How do you think people keep digging up old tweets to (try to) embarrass politicians? https://twitter.com/search-advanced?lang=en https://twitter.com/search-advanced?lang=en