Reta Coffman

Just remember some tweets are for everyone and some tweets are for no one, but some tweets are just for yourself.

Summer 2020 colonial house garden near Philadelphia. Nicely stacked stone stand.

@Retacof Independence is a word of strength

I have finally convinced myself that lonely is not my word…independent works better.

choose your words carefully. you never know how many times someone will replay them in their mind

@RunOldMan Yep, we always do that!

It's funny, sometimes the people that flip me off are the ones that love me the most.

I tried to teach my kids that there are consequences for the choices we make. I have to say, they scared me sometimes.

@doggiedogthedog Thank you for posting…made my morning!

The three boys just met for the 1st time ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@Retacof 15 years of telling it straight up and being cooler than the other side of the pillow! Glad you're still up here!

You guys watching Hawk? “ Those Danes make the biggest dogs.” So stupid but I just keep watching and laughing.

@paulwiggins Thank you.

@Retacof The web address you need ti make your first attempt more natural and less codespeak is this one x.com/search-advanced

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary Still kickin’

Me thinking about getting long denim skirt 🤣😭🤣

@reenee3501 I am so shattered! I so wish I would have saved. We were able to retrieve them easily until recently.

It is so sad search is broken we have no way to find our old tweets 😭

@paulwiggins Thank you!

A road map ..... How far back does X advanced search go. @Retacof Reta Coffman is looking for her first post 15 years ago X says Advanced Search goes back to the platform’s first public post in 2006, so an 11-year-old post should be within range. In practice, old-post indexing can be patchy. X’s Advanced Search guidanceFor Reta, start with:from:@Retacof since:2011-01-01 until:2016-01-01 Then select Latest, not Top. If that produces too much or nothing, narrow it month by month:from: @Retacof since:2015-01-01 until:2015-02-01 Advance the two dates one month at a time. Search without keywords initially—the first post may have been a reply or something unmemorable.If Advanced Search cannot find it, Reta’s downloaded X archive is the authoritative method. It should include her surviving posts in chronological data files. Deleted posts, naturally, will not appear in either place. How does she download her X archive? On the X website:Click More in the left-hand menu. Select Settings and privacy. Select Your account. Click Download an archive of your data. Enter the account password and complete the email or phone verification. Click Request data. X will notify her when it is ready; it may take several days. She then returns to the same page and downloads the .zip file. It contains a browsable HTML archive beginning with her first surviving post, as well as machine-readable JSON files.She should ensure beforehand that the email address attached to the account still works. Official X instructions On the X website:Click More in the left-hand menu. Choose Settings and privacy. Open Your account. Select Download an archive of your data. Enter the account password and complete the email or telephone verification. Click Request archive. X will notify her when it is ready—possibly after a few days. She then returns to the same page and selects Download archive, producing a .zip file. She should use the same browser and remain logged into when downloading it. After unzipping it, opening Your archive.html in a browser provides a searchable presentation beginning with her first surviving post. The archive also includes machine-readable JSON files if finer sorting is needed.

@Retacof Keep on doing so, kicking that is.

@FredOPgh Oh my! Thank you!

@Retacof Screenshot of Grok info.

@FearTheSkirt @masters Bummer

Well nuts! @masters