Do you keep track of interesting tweets you send?
Chances are if you tweeted, retweeted, or favorited a tweet, it was worth remembering. I constantly retweet links to articles I want to review later. But come on, how many of us actually spend the time scrolling through and picking out these old tweets? Not me!
But what if I told you it didn't have to be that hard?
Twitter stores the last 3,200 tweets you sent, but let's face it, it's not an easty-to-view format. Allmytweets.net is an amazing site that allows you to view these tweets in a bulleted easy-to-view format. All you do is enter your twitter ID and it immediately loads your tweets.
Some say it will retrieve slightly over the limit allowed by twitter, but I haven't even tweeted over 1,500 tweets yet, so I couldn't tell you based on experience.
If you could easily separate interesting tweets from tweets you don't care about, would you do it?
Diigo is a bookmarking tool that allows you to highlight text and attach sticky notes to specific parts of web pages.
After creating an account, you have the option of installing Diigo's own toolbar or adding a Diigolet to your bookmarks toolbar. From then on you can easily store text from any web page (ie. twitter) in your own library.
All you do is choose which color highlighter you want to use, then highlight the text as if you were copying and pasting it. Then it immediately saves the text to your Diigo library where you can easily review or remove it later. Diigo provides several easy ways to then share your library of notes and highlights.
Web Services
- Export your library.
- Send to Blog, publish annotations as blog posts easily.
- Tagrolls, show your tag cloud on blog.
- Save to delicious, automatically cross-post to your delicious account.
- Auto blog post, automatically post your bookmarks to blog, weekly or daily.
- Save Favorite Tweets, automatically save your favorite tweets to Diigo.
There is also an option to link your account to twitter. So for example you could:
- Favorite tweets in twitter and automatically save them in Diigo.
- Only save favorites that have links.
- Automatically tag items coming from twitter e.g. tag them ‘tweets’ so you know they came from twitter. Also tag items with hashtags already specified.
While Diigo may seem like a hastle at first, it's totally worth it. Just take your time figuring it out and experimenting and it can become an amazing tool for keeping your great tweets!
