@benbalter's Twitter archive

Archive's historical Tweets as a Jekyll site on GitHub Pages

How to archive your own tweets

1. Download the archive of your data from Twitter (note: this can take 24 hours)
2. Clone this repository
3. Copy the tweets.js file into the root directory as tweets.json
4. Edit tweets.json to remove the window.YTD.tweets.part0 = from the start of the file
5. Run node parse.js. This will convert all the Tweets into individual Markdown files in the _statuses folder
6. bundle to install Jekyll
7. jekyll serve to preview locally
8. Push to GitHub and activate GitHub Pages to publish

Related Tweets

Run script/build-related-statuses and wait a while. It will create a _data/related_statuses.yml file.