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On Thursday and Friday, I was an extra (background performer) for episode 204 of Leverage<\/span>, which is shooting their second season in Portland.*<\/span> Since there’s a lot of waiting around during each day, I thought it would be fun to Twitter a few interesting, spoiler-free remarks<\/a> about my experience.<\/p>\n

That worked out pretty well, and tonight I decided to reformat and post those tweets in a more permanent location and a more readable format. I discovered that no single application exists to do what I want, which is to export a specific subset of my status messages and conversations. (C’mon, Interwebs, this<\/span> is the one time you don’t anticipate my needs? We need to talk.)<\/p>\n

Twitter’s search interface<\/a> only exports to a noisy XML feed, and what I really wanted was a simple, denormalized CSV data file which I could slice and dice manually. I found three web apps that claim to do this:<\/p>\n

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  1. TweetDumpr<\/a> only exports status messages (without timestamps) to a flat text file.<\/li>\n
  2. Twickie<\/a> offers several formatting options, but the “Get CSV” link doesn’t work.<\/li>\n
  3. Tweetake<\/a> is the one that actually worked, but it didn’t provide many filtering options.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of course, Twitter’s own filtering abilities are pretty limited. What I really wanted was a custom timeline including all tweets which:<\/p>\n