My comment on: "Anyone Still Using Friendfeed? | CenterNetworks" (incl. the secret to archiving Twitter)
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FriendFeed is still the best solution to archive one’s Twitter stream (including any imported Twitter “following”) and have it be searchable. Twitter’s “7 days back” search is of course a joke, and FF fills that void. Same for the lack of lists that FF will supply in PERSISTENT ways (unlike Tweetdeck etc. where all of that data eventually disappears again, and the search tools are very limited).
Is it important to have access to all of the links (i.e. “alternative bookmarks”) that we all have so enthusiastically “meta-tagged” in our Twitter streams? Of course. The fact that I can’t search at least my own tweets on Twitter all the way back is shocking…
Is it useful to be able to search back-data on e.g. my Branding group, my Coaching group, etc. Of course. And nothing else yet allows this.
That said, FF never made it easy enough to mass-import Twitter friends not already registered on FF, adding individual ones manually has been far too tedious. And of course we dont’ know if Zuckerberg will ultimately let the service survive. Let’s pray that at least the archive will always stay available.
