Is it possible to search tweets from Prince's old Twitter accounts? I tried searching on @Prince3EG and nothing comes up. Was that account renamed @Prince or was the @Prince account brand new?

rogifan said:

Is it possible to search tweets from Prince's old Twitter accounts? I tried searching on @Prince3EG and nothing comes up. Was that account renamed @Prince or was the @Prince account brand new?

It was renamed to @Prince, to my knowledge. You can change a twitter name, and it will redirect if you type in the old one (for a while). @Prince was his only account.

You can find old tweets under @Prince3EG - I just typed in "Google" Twitter Prince3EG and was directed to old tweets.

There's an achive here of stuff too:

http://web.archive.org/we.../Prince3EG

He renamed his account to @Prince and @Prince3EG stopped working - I thought he'd deleted his account at the time until I saw everyone's Tweets commenting on the change! LOL

clairew1975 said:

Hmm...I've seen some of these. Maybe when you search Twitter it shows the old tweets under the new name. I wish there was a way to recover deleted tweets. P went on an epic YouTube rant once. It was awesome but unfortunately he deleted all those tweets.

rogifan said:

I think Twitter only stores a certain number of old Tweets. Like you, I wanted to re-read some of his old stuff that he kept but it doesn't go back far enough. I guess there must be a 'virtual vault' out there with old tweets if you know where to look.

I love dorky Prince.

rogifan said:

I love dorky Prince.