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Find your tweets from this date in earlier years.
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tweets.sh
# Find your tweets from this date in earlier years.
# OS X's date function doesn't have the required date math capabilities.
# This requires GNU date. You can get it on OS X with `brew install coreutils`
GDATE=/usr/local/bin/gdate
USERNAME=realDonaldTrump
export URL="https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A$USERNAME%20("
for yearsago in {1..12}; do
# echo $URL
URL=$URL"(since%3A"$($GDATE '+%Y-%m-%d' -d "$yearsago year ago")"%20until%3A"$($GDATE '+%Y-%m-%d' -d "$($GDATE '+%Y-%m-%d' -d "$yearsago year ago") 1 day")")%20OR%20";
done;
open $URL")"
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tdhopper commented Aug 5, 2016

On 2016-08-05, this will open:
https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3ArealDonaldTrump%20((since%3A2015-08-05%20until%3A2015-08-06)%20OR%20(since%3A2014-08-05%20until%3A2014-08-06)%20OR%20(since%3A2013-08-05%20until%3A2013-08-06)%20OR%20(since%3A2012-08-05%20until%3A2012-08-06)%20OR%20(since%3A2011-08-05%20until%3A2011-08-06)%20OR%20(since%3A2010-08-05%20until%3A2010-08-06)%20OR%20(since%3A2009-08-05%20until%3A2009-08-06)%20OR%20(since%3A2008-08-05%20until%3A2008-08-06)%20OR%20(since%3A2007-08-05%20until%3A2007-08-06)%20OR%20(since%3A2006-08-05%20until%3A2006-08-06)%20OR%20(since%3A2005-08-05%20until%3A2005-08-06)%20OR%20(since%3A2004-08-05%20until%3A2004-08-06)%20OR%20)

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