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My First Tweet is supposed to find your first chirped status, but it apparently fails if you have gone past the 3000 mark.
There used to be a way to manually page back through your twitter archive by munging the page=XX value of the old URLs… but they took that away.
So where do old tweets go?
Nowhere, they still exist– but for whatever reasons, twitter.com does not provide access to them.
So I searched my blog for references to URLs where I may have linked tweets, searching on http://twitter.com/cogdog/statuses/ and thus found a reference to likely one of my first, as I started tweeting in late January 2007 — the URL still works but HTF can you find it from twitter’s interface?
Bottom line- your old tweets are there, hung in suspended animation.
Free the tweets! Free the tweets?
Old Tweet lives at http://twitter.com/cogdog/status/4886463
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In my case I wonder if “Too many Tweets” is an error or instead an observation. I was interested in seeing what my first tweet was but unfortunately got the same message. Not feeling like scrolling back through countless screens worth to find it – so it may have to remain a mystery for now.
@Mike I had seen previously on that site that it could not reach back through the twitter API beyond 3000 updates. The old ones are there, you just cannot get to them.
What I’ve done is subscribed to the RSS feed of my tweets in Google Reader. Then I’ve got a nice searchable archive. Unfortunately, I didn’t do this when i first joined Twitter. 🙁