New Website Launch!

I am excited to announce the launching of a new sub site to DanielVining.com today.  tweets.DanielVining.com is now live and running smoothly thanks to the WordPress platform and a couple of great plugins.

The premiss of the site is simple.  I wanted to create a place where I could store all my Twitter posts for archiving.  I searched for a tool or site that could do this for me, but didn’t come up with much.  Then I thought, “How hard would it be to create my own pseudo-Twitter site? Not a clone, but more of a dump.”  The answer came thanks to the WordPress theme P2.  P2 is meant to be the WordPress solution to hosting your own Twitter clone site.  In order to get my tweets to the new site, I am using a plugin called Twitter Tools.  The settings on this plugin allow me to send my tweets to my blog, with each new tweet showing up as a new blog post.  Combine that with the look and feel of the theme, and you get your own personal twitter archive.  Now, I can simply back up my blog, which in turn backs up my tweets as well.

"tweets.DanielVining.com"

This website is not meant for mass population.  I am the only contributor, and a wealth of traffic is not expected nor truly wanted.  If, however, you are wanting to learn how you can too back up your tweets, I hope that this site can serve as an example.

The whole point of tweets.DanielVining.com is to back up the tweets from my Twitter stream, which can be found at twitter.com/danielvining.  Check me out, follow me, and keep reading!