@chrismessina see The Avengers mission as it relates to the Activity Streams idea of working toward a shared goal : http://bit.ly/dxTZuO

Teaching people leads to good things (as shown by a Glee cheerleader) : http://bit.ly/c144bI

So, in summary, thanks @twistory! You delivered where Twitter should, but doesn't.

The only minor bummer about the http://twistory.net archive is that it's an iCalendar feed, but I was able to munge it into a database.

I got ALL of toot history from http://twistory.net because by chance I tried it years ago and they've been indexing me all along.