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This is precisely why I built http://tweetsaver.com http://tweetsaver.com ... I wanted a nice way to search through ALL my old tweets AND keep them around. I'm

This is precisely why I built http://tweetsaver.com http://tweetsaver.com ... I wanted a nice way to search through ALL my old tweets AND keep them around. I'm always retweeting awesome content, favoriting interesting things, and sometimes I just want to remember what I said without having to click MORE MORE MORE MORE for 100 pages to find it on twitter.com. Maybe someday Twitter will turn on a feature that kills my app, but for now I think it's the best way to archive, organize and search the great content that flows on twitter.

avar 16y ago
Please don't design your site so that I have to authorize my account and only then find out that I have to fork over $5 or $10 for the service (and de-authorize my account). Only a "Pricing" link in the top-right corner indicates that the site is behind a paywall.
- bradleyjoyce 16y ago
  you don't have to authorize your account to find out it's behind a paywall... but I agree, the flow needs to be improved.
davidu 16y ago
$120/year is not worth it to me. $10/year would be. Just my feedback. :-)
- rythie 16y ago
  You can run Tweetnest yourself http://pongsocket.com/tweetnest/ http://pongsocket.com/tweetnest/ so that's free, here's mine: http://tweets.rythie.com/ http://tweets.rythie.com/ for example. There are other solutions around if you look.
  - kmfrk 16y ago
    Seconding Tweetnest. It doesn't save the favorites, unless they're by yourself, but it's a nice compromise. And it's worked without a hitch.
  - Jarques 16y ago
    I agree with Tweetnest. It's an easy and free way to have a backup of all your tweets. It's nice that it groups tweets by mont and day, so you can pinpoint that one tweet you tweeted that day. Got mine running here: http://jarqu.es/t/ http://jarqu.es/t/
- bradleyjoyce 16y ago
  we tried yearly pricing and it turned out to be a big pain.. people forgot about their subscriptions and we're confused/angry when it renewed, people's credit card numbers changed or expired after a year and caused subscriptions to expire, etc etc... $10/yr pricing on a monthly subscription doesn't work because there are just too many fees. Appreciate the feedback though... still trying to figure out the right price.
  - invisible 16y ago
    Which fees? If you mean credit card processing fees, then even $20 would make more sense, no? You have to remember: your service isn't twitter so I think people would be less inclined to pay a total of $5-10/month. (I don't know this market well enough, but that's my initial takeaway.)
    - rythie 16y ago
      I'm thinking if they are storing 3 million tweets that's got to be about 900 customers meaning $9000/month in revenue.
- scriptfu 16y ago
  I recently signed up for http://tweetstreamapp.com http://tweetstreamapp.com. $5 for a year of weekly backups, and they do some neat data visualizations, too. Well worth the fiver.
grinich 16y ago
How did you decide that price point? Are your operating costs very high?
- bradleyjoyce 16y ago
  to be honest, it was mostly based on "what would I pay for this service" ... operating costs at this point are pretty low

avar 16y ago

Please don't design your site so that I have to authorize my account and only then find out that I have to fork over $5 or $10 for the service (and de-authorize my account). Only a "Pricing" link in the top-right corner indicates that the site is behind a paywall.

bradleyjoyce 16y ago
you don't have to authorize your account to find out it's behind a paywall... but I agree, the flow needs to be improved.

davidu 16y ago

$120/year is not worth it to me. $10/year would be. Just my feedback. :-)

rythie 16y ago
You can run Tweetnest yourself http://pongsocket.com/tweetnest/ http://pongsocket.com/tweetnest/ so that's free, here's mine: http://tweets.rythie.com/ http://tweets.rythie.com/ for example. There are other solutions around if you look.
- kmfrk 16y ago
  Seconding Tweetnest. It doesn't save the favorites, unless they're by yourself, but it's a nice compromise. And it's worked without a hitch.
- Jarques 16y ago
  I agree with Tweetnest. It's an easy and free way to have a backup of all your tweets. It's nice that it groups tweets by mont and day, so you can pinpoint that one tweet you tweeted that day. Got mine running here: http://jarqu.es/t/ http://jarqu.es/t/
bradleyjoyce 16y ago
we tried yearly pricing and it turned out to be a big pain.. people forgot about their subscriptions and we're confused/angry when it renewed, people's credit card numbers changed or expired after a year and caused subscriptions to expire, etc etc... $10/yr pricing on a monthly subscription doesn't work because there are just too many fees. Appreciate the feedback though... still trying to figure out the right price.
- invisible 16y ago
  Which fees? If you mean credit card processing fees, then even $20 would make more sense, no? You have to remember: your service isn't twitter so I think people would be less inclined to pay a total of $5-10/month. (I don't know this market well enough, but that's my initial takeaway.)
  - rythie 16y ago
    I'm thinking if they are storing 3 million tweets that's got to be about 900 customers meaning $9000/month in revenue.
scriptfu 16y ago
I recently signed up for http://tweetstreamapp.com http://tweetstreamapp.com. $5 for a year of weekly backups, and they do some neat data visualizations, too. Well worth the fiver.

grinich 16y ago

How did you decide that price point? Are your operating costs very high?

bradleyjoyce 16y ago
to be honest, it was mostly based on "what would I pay for this service" ... operating costs at this point are pretty low