I think we can safely say anyone holding their breath for this feature should have a good life insurance policy.

We know this because back in college and in the year or so following, Mark Zuckerberg held lots of instant message conversations with friends and confidants about his plans for life and work. Due to a lawsuit or two, these instant messages were preserved. We have viewed some of them.

Paste in the URL from a single tweet in a conversation to get a one-page thread you can share or save. Or put together your own list of tweets, one URL per line.

This is a little app to let you view a twitter conversation in one place and permalink it for the future.

It intentionally doesn't do much. Give it the last tweet id in a conversation and it walks up the tree figuring out the conversation, then saves that for the future.

I made this little program so you can view and link to a whole conversation from Twitter in context. Just enter a Tweet's ID to get started (it's the number in the URL of an individual Twitter page):

Psychological Science has a brilliantly conceived study that explains why overhearing someone talk on a mobile phone is so much more annoying than simply overhearing two people in conversation.

A conversation I have every month or so: - Genius. /via @joethedough

Screenshot of Skype conversation with 419 scammer

The clips are drawn from the Voices recordings – which capture 1,200 people in conversation. Some of the clips are people talking about language – slang, dialect, taboo words, accents. Other clips cover all sorts of subjects and simply offer a flavour of how we talk today.