Today Twitter announced a fantastic new service that allows you to access all your old Tweets.

Your Twitter archive will be downloadable and allows you to view your Tweets by month, or search your archive to find Tweets with certain words, phrases, hashtags or @usernames. You can even engage with your old Tweets just as you would with current ones.

To get your archive, go to the Settings area and look for the new “Your Twitter archive” feature. You can then request to access your archive – due to high demand at the moment there is a bit of a back log so you might receive an error message first time around. As I said, this hasn’t rolled out completely yet and I haven’t been able to have a play but It’s promised to go global over “the coming weeks and months.” Watch this space!