How to find a Twitter First Post
April 15th, 2008 | Published in Emerging Technology, Social Networks | 3 Comments
Want to the find the first post you wrote or that someone else wrote? It’s easy.
- Go to the Twitter page of the person whose first post you want to see. Take note of their Twitter username.
- Look for the number of updates in the Stats section in the right column.
- Take the number of updates and divide it by 20. (There are 20 updates per page).
- If you have a remainder after the division, add 1 to your result. This is the page number you need.
- Construct a url using the following syntax:
http://twitter.com/[username]?page=[pagenumber] - Load that url in your browser.
That’s it. Enjoy!
January 26th, 2009 at 11:32 am (#)
it didn’t work, mine would have been page 881 but it won’t let me past page 320!
January 26th, 2009 at 12:26 pm (#)
Didn’t work for me either, all I got was a profile page with no updates at all on it.
January 26th, 2009 at 1:51 pm (#)
Yes. Unfortunately this is the case.
When I wrote the post, either there wasn’t a limit or the accounts I tested with hadn’t reached it yet. Now you can only go so far back in time.
I wonder if that history exists in Twitter’s databases and is accessible some way or if it is gone forever.