How to Archive Twitter Response Threads

twickie_hpIf you’re trying to do market research online with Twitter or simply want to copy and paste Twitter response threads to your blog, you’ll find Chris Pirillo’s Twickie tool to be very helpful.

Twickie is a free service that aggregates Twitter replies based on a specific tweet’s ID which is found at the end of the tweet’s permalink. This makes it easier for the original poster to follow the conversation thread.

When you go to Twickie, you’ll be prompted to enter your Twitter username and password. Once you log in, you’ll be able to see your 50 most recent tweets. Click the “Get @s ?” button to see tweet replies in descending order and the “Get @s ?” to see tweet replies in ascending order.

If the thread you’re looking for is not on your Twickie homepage, click on “Search”. This page will let you search for threads by replies, hashtags, conversations, and person-to-person.

Here is a breakdown of each search function:

You can then export the conversation thread three ways:

  1. Copy Full (default option)
  2. Copy CSS (advanced)
  3. Copy HTML (advanced)

Select which option best suits your needs then paste into your blog. It’s that easy and it’s free.

Just recently, my husband and I celebrated our two-year wedding anniversary in San Francisco, CA. Before we headed out, I asked my followers if they had any suggestions for restaurants or places we should visit. By aggregating all of the responses into one single thread, it was easier to distinguish which replies were related to my San Francisco trip and those that were not.

For updated, news, and more information about Twickie, follow them on Twitter @twickie.

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4 Comments

  • susan February 27, 2009 at 5:34 am

    That will be so useful, thanks!

    • Stephanie Gulley March 2, 2009 at 8:18 pm

      Let me know how it works out for you (i.e. what you liked and didn’t like). So far it’s been working really great for me and I’m surprised that you can archive the Tweets of other conversions – they make it so easy.

  • Kelly Brown June 12, 2009 at 10:15 am

    Hi, great post thanks for posting. Information is useful!

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