Twitterscribe - Keeping your tweets preserved.

How does this thing work, technically?

So we all know Twitter has an API which allows third-party apps, when they have your login details, to act on your behalf – clients like Twhirl which are two-way, and other little services like Twitterfeed which just tweet on your behalf. Twitterscribe is one-way in that it only imports your tweets.

Each time an external app does something, it uses one of your API requests.

Every day, a cron job runs on the Twitterscribe server which loops through each of our users' details and requests their last 200 items – the maximum returned in one API request. It stores these, along with the metadata, into the Twitterscribe DB.

We no longer need your password as we are using Twitter's OAuth.

Not very exciting, is it?

What do I do if I've changed my Twitter username?

Nothing! Login as usual and we'll still have all your tweets from your old username.