A listener to Mitch Joel’s Six Pixels of Separation: The Twist Image Podcast recently called in with a comment about the permanence of Twitter posts. His point: unlike our blog posts, which will live on in digital permanence and can be called up through a site without much trouble, our individual Tweets tend to disappear from public view not long after their published.

I challenge you to try and find my Tweets from March 1, 2007 in under two minutes, which is about the amount of time most of us would be willing to spend on such a task before giving up and turning our continuous partial attention somewhere else. Turns out that while it is possible to go through someone’s Twitter archives on the Twitter site itself — by clicking on the “previous” or “next” buttons at the bottom of the page of an individual user’s Tweets — to actually do so is one big pain in the butt.

But now, thanks to Alex King’s Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress, the process has become inifinitely easier. I’ve just installed the plugin, and now a daily archive of my Tweets will appear on this blog.

So, two months from now, should you really want to know what I was blogging about on April 26, you’ll be able to do so in a flash by jumping to the monthly archive from this blog’s sidbar.

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P.S. Here’s my Twitter archive page that includes my Tweets from March 1. I know you were wondering.

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