Twitter coverage, from archives and milestones to the Fail Whale tee.
Three years ago, I blogged about getting your first tweet if you have more than 3,200. Those instructions relied on the Internet Archive, which isn't always available. Happily, Twitter now lets most users download their Twitter Archive directly.
I joined Twitter on 29th June 2007, and today marks my fourth year on the platform. Curiously, despite signing up in June, my very first tweet only came on 7th October 2007. Do follow @gamerz if you're so inclined.
Conducted across eight Asia-Pacific markets including Australia, China, Hong Kong, India and Taiwan, the second quarterly Digital Brand Index (DBI 2.0) keeps surfacing insights on the most discussed brands online and the subjects sparking the liveliest debate.
Update: on Twitter's 8th birthday, it launched first-tweets.com, where you type in any @username, your best pal, a comedian, a star or a president, to find their very first tweet, handy even if your account has well over 3,200 tweets.
Ozh and I have released YOURLS, Your Own URL Shortener. I run it on lc.sg and Ozh on ozh.in. YOURLS is a small set of PHP scripts that let you host your own TinyURL-style shortening service, private or public.
The Fail Whale, designed by Lu Yiying, was made famous by Twitter, which shows it whenever the server is overloaded or down. Zazzle and Spreadshirt are the two official places to buy the Fail Whale t-shirt, and I've ordered mine.