I liked vrypan’s idea about keeping control of your tweets.
But I wanted to do it «the other way around».
Keep using the twitter interface, but archive a copy of my tweets in a dedicated wordpress blog.
So I found a wordpress plugin that does that:
Twitter Tools
I also wanted to populate my blog with my older tweets.
So a bit of Net::Twitter::Lite and WordPress::API thrown in a few lines of perl code, did the trick!
#!/usr/bin/perl use Net::Twitter::Lite; use WordPress::API; use Unicode::String; use utf8; my $nt = Net::Twitter::Lite->new( username => "twitter-username", password => "twitter-password"); my $w = WordPress::API->new({ proxy => 'http://stsimb-tweets.irc.gr/xmlrpc.php', username => 'blog-username', password => 'blog-password', }); eval { my $statuses = $nt->user_timeline({ count => 100, page => '1' }); for my $status ( @$statuses ) { print "$status->{id} $status->{created_at} $status->{text}\n"; my $tweet = Unicode::String::utf8($status->{text}); my $post = $w->post; $post->description("$tweet"); $post->dateCreated("$status->{created_at}"); $post->save; } }; warn "$@\n" if $@;
So now I have most of my tweets at http://stsimb-tweets.irc.gr/.
It’s my own tweetbackup service :-)