Recently I signed in on Twitter to search for an important mention or @myname made by an associate. I was in a hurry and have hoped that this would be an easy job to dig through my @myname. However, in contrast to my high hope, digging through and searching had to be one of the painful things that happened to me (apart from the moment resulting from foolishly not saving that message content in the first place!).

“More”, “More”, “More” and “More” at the @myname didn’t really help since I had many replies from university colleagues, business partners, and other users. I figured there had to be a way and I found out Twitter Talk few days later. I chose to use Twitter Talk not just for me but for all out there who wants to search through their @names without any or minimized frustrations.

“What did you do?”, you may ask. It is more like a ‘how’ than a ‘what’. I used a script to connect to Twitter via API to gather my @myname information. It helped me see all my most recent conversations in a threaded view. Threaded view means the conversations are displayed as in the forums but in Twitter’s case only between my associate and me (only 2!). This saved me huge amount of time going through @myname to search for replies scrolling down and down skipping other “unwanted-at-the-moment” replies by other tweeters.

And no, I will not be selfish and use the method or keep it for me only. I’ve decided to share it with you all! Go to my blog’s Twitter Talk and simply enter your Twitter username and password to log into your account. Once logged in you will see a list of friends you recently chatted with. Select one and you will see your recent conversation thread with that person. You can also make replies through here!

And once again, no, your information including your username and password are not saved in any format. To be honest, there are only 2 folders and 2 files for Twitter Talk, no database what-so-ever. I would give you the database password to prove it but well, there isn’t any!

Enjoy the threaded conversation with KMK Blog’s Twitter Talk! Make sure to bookmark it before you forget the link! I haven’t found out a ‘grab info from someone’s memory’ script YET!

PS: In case you were wondering, yes, I did found that one @reply after 5 “Mores”!

Cheers,
Kaung Ko