{"id":4093,"date":"2014-11-19T14:29:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T14:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2014-11-19T14:29:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T14:29:17","slug":"twitter-is-searchable-my-early-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/twitter-is-searchable-my-early-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter is Searchable: My Early Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2014\/building-a-complete-tweet-index\">finally built<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search-advanced\">full search engine<\/a> for its archived Tweets. That&#8217;s important because it has been incredibly hard in the past to find specific Tweets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/adambowie\">I&#8217;m on Twitter<\/a> of course, and have been since sometime in December 2006. But this search engine fills in a few blanks.<\/p>\n<p>My first Tweet was not the most exciting ever:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Working&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Bowie (@adambowie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adambowie\/status\/1052253\">December 13, 2006<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That was December 13. I then didn&#8217;t do anything for about three months when I published this helpfully:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Finally getting around to playing with Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Bowie (@adambowie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adambowie\/status\/6995341\">March 12, 2007<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Hello world<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Bowie (@adambowie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adambowie\/status\/7074801\">March 12, 2007<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Hello again world<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Bowie (@adambowie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adambowie\/status\/7076991\">March 12, 2007<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The first actual thing of interest was a few days later:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Playing with Bluetooth FM Radio Nano remote thingy.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Bowie (@adambowie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adambowie\/status\/10674561\">March 21, 2007<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m honestly not sure what that might have been.<\/p>\n<p>Then this was squarely aimed at the only other people I really knew on Twitter &#8211; the tech guys at One Golden Square:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Disappointed that Martin Collins isn&#39;t playing Carmina Burana at the start of his new show. Does that mean no old jingles either?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Bowie (@adambowie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adambowie\/status\/13028631\">March 26, 2007<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Martin Collins is on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magic.co.uk\/martincollins\">early shift<\/a> at Magic these days &#8211; and back in One Golden Square. I&#8217;m not sure if he&#8217;s still using Carmina Burana&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Still playing with Yahoo Pipes and the Twitter feed<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Bowie (@adambowie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adambowie\/status\/76765742\">May 24, 2007<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Pipes! <\/p>\n<p>Then I started doing something that I&#8217;d completely forgotten. I started using Twitter in the third-person. I&#8217;m honestly not sure why, and I suspect that it&#8217;s because other people were doing that. I certainly didn&#8217;t have someone Tweeting for me!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Adam is playing with Facebook applications&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Bowie (@adambowie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adambowie\/status\/78075842\">May 25, 2007<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Adam is recharging his camera&#39;s battery.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Bowie (@adambowie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adambowie\/status\/79301872\">May 26, 2007<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Adam is off to see the Pet Shop Boys.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Bowie (@adambowie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adambowie\/status\/80671582\">May 27, 2007<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Adam is annoyed that for some reason Sky failed to record The Apprentice &#8211; he&#39;s having to resort to &quot;other means&quot; to get it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Bowie (@adambowie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adambowie\/status\/84605732\">May 30, 2007<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Adam is wondering how good an idea it is to advertise your general hungover\/tiredness on Facebook (Adam is neither hungover nor tired incide<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Bowie (@adambowie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adambowie\/status\/90623822\">June 4, 2007<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve kicked The Apprentice habit you&#8217;ll be pleased to learn. And I still think it&#8217;s unwise to advertise your hangover on social media if your work colleagues follow you &#8211; particularly your boss.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime in the second half of 2007, a lot of us at Virgin Radio started using Twitter in a different way, although most didn&#8217;t realise that they&#8217;d set up a Twitter account. <\/p>\n<p>Twitter at the time let you receive free SMS messages from specific accounts. It still does (although it&#8217;s operator specific and Vodafone has recently cancelled this service). <\/p>\n<p>Using a combination of the Virgin Radio shortcode for texting, and Twitter, <a href=\"http:\/\/james.cridland.net\">James Cridland<\/a> got everyone in the company to sign up to Twitter with their mobile phones ahead of our weekend away in Dublin. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what happened. You followed a Virgin Radio account and enabled SMS messaging from it. Then you sent a message to the Virgin Radio text number with a prefix (so that it skipped the studio inbox). That was then &#8220;posted&#8221; as a Virgin Radio Tweet. And everyone following that account then got an SMS with said Tweet. <\/p>\n<p>Free SMS group messaging for everyone in the company while we went on our jaunt to the Emerald Isle! <\/p>\n<p>Well there were a few issues. <\/p>\n<p>Firstly, it was anonymous, since all the Tweets were coming from the Virgin Radio account. And people quickly realised this. You could make &#8220;humorous&#8221; comments about your colleagues and they wouldn&#8217;t know who was broadcasting them. <\/p>\n<p>Secondly, the volume of texts that everyone was getting meant that before we&#8217;d reached Heathrow Airport on the way out, a lot of people&#8217;s phones were dead or clogged up with texts, and they were desperately asking how to unsubscribe!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how any of this is related and whether I somehow got accounts muddled for a while, but my Twitter timeline goes quiet now until early 2008.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Because I have nothing better to do tonight: http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/002362.html<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Bowie (@adambowie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adambowie\/status\/697278462\">February 10, 2008<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ll save you a click &#8211; it&#8217;s a live blog of the BAFTAs).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Looking forward to listening to In Our Time this week on Ada Lovelace! (http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/history\/inourtime\/inourtime.shtml)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Bowie (@adambowie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adambowie\/status\/768107194\">March 7, 2008<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>(You can still listen to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0092j0x\">here<\/a> or download it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/podcasts\/series\/iots\/all\">this page<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The key thing to note is that I was no longer Tweeting in the third person. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I don&#8217;t propose to run through all 12,900 or so Tweets from there to date, but it&#8217;s fun using Twitter search to see how things have changed.<\/p>\n<p>One final thing to say is that I don&#8217;t know if old Tweets come with the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has finally built a full search engine for its archived Tweets. 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