A few months ago I started using Twitter lists to store links of my students' work. I wanted Twitter to store the links of the tweets that I posted so that the Twitter links could be accessed later. I wanted to use the stored links within the lists to create student ePortfolios, which students could access through links provided on this blog along the top bar. I also wanted to use Twitter to update my blog with the homework for the day through the use of a Twitter widget found on the right hand side of the blog.
Everything was going great for a while. The Twitter links within my posts were stored, working and students were looking back at their previous work found under the Student Work tab. Everything was going great for a while, let's say about a week. After about a week, the Twitter lists had gone empty. The tweets just disappeared. I did not delete any tweets from the lists or edit them in anyway.
I looked at the Twitter site and found in the Help section a post about missing tweets. I researched the trouble I was having with missing tweets and found out that Twitter does not archive tweets. I also found out that tweets disappear from lists after an unknown amount of time. I could not have this, so I started looking (googling) for a way to archive my tweets for use with this blog. If my tweets were archived and available online somewhere I could link them back to this site.
I found a way to fix my problem. The short version of how to archive tweets can be found here: http://wp.me/p1twQQ-3lE I began using the method by Martin Hawksey. His method is found with a click on the previous link in this post.
Another interesting use of a script that Martin wrote is a way to interact visually with Twitter conversations from a specific hashtag. I am one of the organizers of edcampSWO. I wanted the learning and Twitter conversations to be recorded from that day. The script that Martin wrote archives the tweets from a hashtag or Twitter list and creates an interactive visual representation of Twitter conversations. Click on the link below for the interactive visual archive of Twitter conversations from #edcampSWO. This is an example of what it can do for your conversations. http://bit.ly/WmjHjF
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