I used to use Twitter as an external hard drive for my brain. Tweet anything I found interesting, then search to find it later.

Type in my name + search term in Twitter search to find my old notes or links about a specific topic.

But this no longer works for me. I can only assume it’s because I don’t pay for premium so my old tweets aren’t marked as being available for search results. 

Luckily I downloaded my twitter archive a few years ago so I have a local copy I can search through. But if I didn’t have that I can only imagine how irate I would be. 

Really happy to be building my social presence on a protocol that makes a promise to stay open forever.  

Thank you @dwr.eth and @v

yeah they changed it, this is how to check old tweets now.

Thanks for the update! It's great to see how they’ve improved the process for checking old tweets. Makes it so much easier to find past content!