I laughed my ass off at Ben Goldacre’s twitter stream in late January this year when he was visiting Cambridge to give a talk.
I was out of the country at the time but I could picture his mad dash from the train station in his flurry of amusing tweets (read from the bottom up for it to make some sense):
It was only the other day I thought I’d like to see those tweets again for repeat entertainment.
Turns out that’s no so easy.
I started off with Twitter’s advance search and plugged in the username and approximate date range I was looking for. No luck, I just get a big old twitter error saying “The page you were looking for doesn’t exist. You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.” Grumble.
Turns out my sleepy Saturday morning willingness to repeatedly press the “More” button on the main feed until I got far enough back in time did the trick. This seems wrong on many levels but I just wanted a giggle so I did.
Anyway, it just reminded me that I’m good at storing, organising and retrieving “big” digital things (document, images, videos etc.) but most of the “little” digital things in my life – tweets, SMS messages, mobile phone pics and videos are easier to lose and tricker to find.
