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TOM FRANCIS
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Hello! I'm Tom, I designed and wrote a game called Gunpoint. I've also written things for PC Gamer, I sometimes write short stories and stuff, and I like figuring out how to be happy. In my spare time I enjoy looking to the right and laughing at nothing.

Old Tweets

It hasn’t rolled out to everyone yet, but for some, if you go to Settings in Twitter, you’ll get the option to download an archive of all your tweets.

This is cool mainly because Twitter is so terrible at finding or letting you access old stuff: search only works for incredibly recent stuff, and I don’t know of any way to see the start of someone’s timeline, short of scrolling down and hoping the JavaScript doesn’t break any of the 6,000 times it needs to load the next set of tweets.

Anyway, I got mine, and I wondered if I could use it to make old stuff more accessible. The best way I could find was to use the offline copy to find the URLs, then use Storify to make them into a feed. I also snipped out any replies and outdated links and stuff.

My first ever tweet was about Cyrostasis?


Chris: Have you looked into http://thinkupapp.com ? This is a great way for archiving your tweets and other social network posts.

TomTrilby: The bit about waking up at night had me in stiches. Love your stuff Tom, thanks for this.

Please post any Gunpoint bug reports in the Gunpoint Bugs forum - I can solve them quicker if they're all in the same place, and you can see if it's already been reported.

URLs get turned into links automatically. You can use <i>HTML</i> but not [b]forum[/b] code. If your comment doesn't show up, e-mail me - the spam filter's just detained it for questioning.