Who got Tweeted First on Twitter As Twitter has Recently opened up the Archives
AS Twitter has recently opened up their archives that is making possible for anyone to search the entire Twitter database. The first tweet was published in 2006. This time-sorted archive of billions to tweets are helpful for research and more. so when we are trying to find out who broke the news first on Twitter or who are the original source of a quote.
For example, if you want to know who said something first on Twitter, through iPhone you can know Twitter’s advanced search, choose the range of dates and dig through the old tweets. If a match is found, you can further narrow down the date range and repeat until you find the oldest matching tweet.
But There is a little problem though it.
It will take trial-and-error to find out the first tweet for any topic. First You have to guess the range of dates when that tweet was probably sent and keep narrowing down that range. The Twitter API does let you search tweets within a date range but, as you have noticed in the Twitter archiver, the API does not return tweets older than a few weeks, thus you have to perform searches for old tweets manually.
First it is my new web-app that seeks to solve this very problem. It helps you to find old tweets for any topic automatically. Here we have some examples.
The web app Internally performs the binary search against the archives. It takes your search query and executes Twitter’s advanced search for the entire range of dates. It shrinks the range by first half and discards the other half. The process will be continued till elusive tweet is discovered. This explains you why the app is slow as it has to perform a couple of JSON requests before getting the result.
AS Twitter has recently opened up their archives that is making possible for anyone to search the entire Twitter database. The first tweet was published in 2006. This time-sorted archive of billions to tweets are helpful for research and more. so when we are trying to find out who broke the news first on Twitter or who are the original source of a quote.
For example, if you want to know who said something first on Twitter, through iPhone you can know Twitter’s advanced search, choose the range of dates and dig through the old tweets. If a match is found, you can further narrow down the date range and repeat until you find the oldest matching tweet.
But There is a little problem though it.
It will take trial-and-error to find out the first tweet for any topic. First You have to guess the range of dates when that tweet was probably sent and keep narrowing down that range. The Twitter API does let you search tweets within a date range but, as you have noticed in the Twitter archiver, the API does not return tweets older than a few weeks, thus you have to perform searches for old tweets manually.
First it is my new web-app that seeks to solve this very problem. It helps you to find old tweets for any topic automatically. Here we have some examples.
The web app Internally performs the binary search against the archives. It takes your search query and executes Twitter’s advanced search for the entire range of dates. It shrinks the range by first half and discards the other half. The process will be continued till elusive tweet is discovered. This explains you why the app is slow as it has to perform a couple of JSON requests before getting the result.
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