• The New York Times, Wednesday, July 25, 2012 12:03 PM

Facebook and other social media services let users download files with all their data. Though not currently in that camp, Twitter plans to join in and let people save each and every tweet. So Dick Costolo, Twitter’s chief executive, tells The New York Times’ Bits blog. Writes Bits: “The demand for a way to reach back in time and trawl through the thousands of messages [users] have posted to the site has become high enough that Twitter executives decided to devote some of its engineers to building a solution.”
 

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