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January 28, 2022 6:53 PM

I'm trying to read Marc Andreessen's "tweetstorm" from July 2nd, 2015 about how "Tech Gives People Superpowers" collected in these four articles on Medium. The Medium articles are full of blank tweets because his old tweets (as @pmarca) are not available.

Here's what I've tried:

The pages were not archived by the Internet Archive.

They are also blank in Google page cache. (as you might expect since the cache gets overwritten with newer (blank) versions)

The tweets should be archived by @pmarca_retweet. However, @pmarca was tweeting too much in the few days surrounding the articles to easily find the specific tweets I'm looking for. E.g.: here are his tweets from July 2nd, 2015, the day the articles were published. The @pmarca tweets linked in the medium articles are simply a long identifier string and I'm not sure if it's possible to correlate them with their @pmarca_retweet retweets. The initial @pmarca tweets may also have been tweeted prior to the July 2nd articles.

posted by ropeladder to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Best answer: Are you sure about that date? I googled a quote attributed to it and found this 2014 Salon article which links to a different Medium write-up; the tweets there are blank on Wayback Machine but the links to the tweetstorms themselves were at least partially archived:

Part 1

Part 2

Might have more luck searching around that time, unless this was a different or early version.
posted by Rhaomi at 7:23 PM on January 28, 2022

Response by poster: That works! Thanks. I didn't think to use the Twitter links in the Wayback Machine, for some reason.
posted by ropeladder at 11:35 AM on January 29, 2022