Twitter only keeps the last 80 entries

I was asked to write an article about my experience at Cannes this year. 900 words! So I thought I'd do the easy thing and just edit my twitter feed down to the best pieces.

It was then I found out that Twitter only keeps the last 80 entries!. WTF. So I've lost 50 entries to the interweb. I did a search and found other people trying to collate a years worth and ran into the same trouble. I was able to fudge the first few days but it's sad that I no have no digital record of that period in my life.Maybe I'm missing what Twittering is meant for but it seems silly for there to be no way to archive properly. Even provide a way to do it off the Twitter servers.

So now if you ever Twitter a major event in your life be sure ot have a backup plan in place or you're fucked.