Tips for Managing Your Twitter Archive

Capturing your social media footprint in an archive that you can manage is only step one. Leveraging the tools available to make archiving useful to you add the value.

Interacting with your archive
In Arkovi - your archive is “live” - meaning we present the update you have made on Twitter with hyperlinks, text, date and time stamp intact; even the client you used to publish the update is captured (like Tweet Deck, Seesmic, Tweetie, SMS text or web, etc.).

Your archive is divided into the logical categories Twitter uses:

• Tweets
• Direct Messages
• Mentions (@ replies) in other users Tweets
• Your Tweets, retweeted

Searching is simple with paging to show 20 Tweets at a time and a keyword search to mine your archive. You can retweet an old post that may no longer be on Twitter - or post a status update from within Arkovi.

Extending your archive
If you connect your LinkedIn account to Twitter , when you update your LinkedIn status - it will also send a Tweet to Twitter, which Arkovi will capture. We even note that it came from your LinkedIn status as the source of the update.

In addition to search and integration - you can extend your archive beyond Arkovi via the export feature. This will provide you an export file you can include in your online or offline backup process - or to use with other applications.

Needle in a Haystack
We use our own technology of course, and not just for testing as we are active in the social conversation for more than just talking about Arkovi! I recently was assembling a presentation for a webinar on CRM and knew I had a great link to a research report on successful implementations and best practices. It had fallen off the Twitter stream being several months old - but was in my Arkovi archive. I was able to snag this link and use it in my presentation. This along saved me a lot of searching or even missing out on a valuable piece of content to share with others.

We would look forward to hearing from you on your experiences on Arkovi or questions and comments on archiving in general and our roadmap for 2010.

Tags: Archiving, Twitter