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I've seldom seen any tweet carry information for longer than a few days. The combination of the messages being small, threads being hard to read, and tweets bei
by scrollaway 9y ago
I've seldom seen any tweet carry information for longer than a few days. The combination of the messages being small, threads being hard to read, and tweets being hard to search makes them an atrociously bad medium to store information.
It's kinda like IRC discussions but almost worse. It's a shame because there's a lot of information stored in there... it's just not accessible.
- doomlaser 9y agothey're useful in gauging public responses to events or products, and old ones can be particularly useful to see how something was viewed in its time. you can get pretty fancy with date range searches at https://twitter.com/search-advanced https://twitter.com/search-advanced I use it to read the pulse on all sorts of things all the time. I even have 't' set as an address bar hotkey trigger for https://twitter.com/search?q=%s https://twitter.com/search?q=%s on every browser that supports the functionality.