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Twitter lets users claim their personal history Dec 19th 2012, 23:34 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Inside view on good social media posts 4:33pm EST Instagram tests new limits in user privacy 12:34pm EST Instagram says no plans to put user photos in ads Tue, Dec 18 2012 Twitter and Nielsen pair up to publish new "social TV" ratings Mon, Dec 17 2012 Selling flak jackets in the cyberwars Thu, Dec 13 2012 Analysis & Opinion In a crisis, Twitter morphs into cable news Pheasant hunting in England A Twitter page is displayed on an Apple iPhone in Los Angeles October 13, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO | Wed Dec 19, 2012 6:34pm EST SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter's 200 million active users can soon savor or cringe over every single statement they've tweeted when the social media company begins sending users their entire archive of 140-character messages. Only English-language users have this service for now, but Twitter will eventually send a download link containing the full personal archives in one file to any user who asks, the company said on Wednesday. "Maybe you wanted to recall your reaction to the 2008 election, reminisce on what you said to your partner on your 10th anniversary, or just see your first few Tweets. We know lots of you would like to explore your Twitter past," Mollie Vandor, a Twitter engineer, wrote in an official blog post Wednesday. Since Twitter launched the service in 2006, tweets have evolved from a tool for youngsters to chat about frivolous things into a force for social change. It has served as an alternative to government-controlled media, for example, in the Middle East. And during Superstorm Sandy this year, news organizations and emergency response officials turned to Twitter as an essential source of real-time information. In 2010, the Library of Congress pledged to preserve every public tweet as a matter of record - a significant undertaking, given that some 400 million tweets are dispatched worldwide everyday. Bookending that archive will be one noted dispatch by Twitter Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey, who is widely recognized as its inventor. Dorsey, ignoring punctuation, brought the service to life shortly after 1:00 p.m. on March 21, 2006 with a supremely pedestrian update about his experimental social network. "inviting coworkers," Dorsey wrote. (Reporting by Gerry Shih; Editing by Richard Chang) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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