Quick, harpoon'em before they become extinct!
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Harpoon, my GreaseMonkey script to download tweets is fixed (it broke with some minor changes from Twitter). You can also now download your (and your tweeps’) favorites, which are often substantial & valuable cullings (My friend @olifante has already ~2000 great pickings!).
Get it from its UserScripts page.
4 Comments
why would they die?
Ah! It was a pun on the famous joke: “Quick, harpoon it before it becomes extinct”, said the whalers. :)
Your tweets are not likely to die but the main reason to back them up as a text file is to be able to find them quickly. Twitter’s search simply forgets randomly about old tweets, so when you want to find something you said months ago and have 100s of tweets, you are left to clumsily page and page.
Yes yes, I do use Harpoon because I hate the page by page view twitter offers.
I just panicked because I didn’t understood the pun. Good then. Thanks :D
I’m glad I have mine in a text file. Thanks! By the way, I sometimes want to download an entire website and HTTrack is my tool of choice for that. I just snagged a whole copy of one blog before links to the archives were removed.