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114986186?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1355938054768Oli Scarff/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Get ready to spend even more time reading tweets and not ones from others. On Wednesday, Twitter started to roll out a feature that allows users to download and view all of their tweets.

Until now, users have been unable to go back into their own tweet histories.

“Today, we’re introducing the ability to download your Twitter archive, so you’ll get all your Tweets (including Retweets) going back to the beginning,” Twitter announced on the company’s blog. “Once you have your Twitter archive, you can view your Tweets by month, or search your archive to find Tweets with certain words, phrases, hashtags or @usernames. You can even engage with your old Tweets just as you would with current ones.”

So how do you get to your old tweets? Head to the Settings menu on Twitter.com and at the bottom you will see a button to “Request your archive.” Click on that and Twitter will then email you with the instructions on how to download your archive.

When you download the file sent by Twitter you will be able to open the file in your web browser and view your tweets and even share them. It’s an offline file, but you can view it in your browser and even view the Tweet on Twitter. You can’t retweet your own tweets since Twitter doesn’t actually let you retweet yourself.

Twitter has also organized your tweets by year and then month. You can hover over the months and see how many times you tweeted at a specific time over the last few years.

Twitter says this feature will begin rolling out to everyone Wednesday.

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