Twitter Officially Opens Your Archive

The honchos at Twitter have made good on a promise to let users tap into their tweets from long ago. Twitter explained that users who go to the “settings” tab will find instructions on how to download their archive. So, what does it mean to unlock babble from long ago? For now, the Twitter archive is a way to indulge in personal nostalgia much like Facebook’s Timeline. But in the long term, these archives will come to be indispensable tools for scholars, statisticians and cultural historians — consider how Twitter feeds have already become analogous to newspapers and diaries.