( CNN ) -- Having trouble remembering how you worded that awesomely clever late-night Twitter post from last New Year 's Eve ? Curious about what your first tweet was ? Or what you were saying at other specific times in the site 's six-year history ? Twitter is making it a lot easier to do so . On Wednesday , the site announced that users will be able to download their entire personal Twitter archive . That includes their tweets and retweets , and there will be tools to let users search them by date , keywords , hashtags or @ usernames . `` You make Twitter what it is . And if you tweet , you may have found yourself wanting to go back in time and explore your past Tweets , '' Mollie Vandor of Twitter 's engineering team wrote in a blog post . `` Maybe you wanted to recall your reaction to the 2008 election , reminisce on what you said to your partner on your 10th anniversary or just see your first few Tweets . '' According to Twitter , a small percentage of users who have their language set to English have already gotten the tool . It will be rolling out to all users over the coming weeks and months , according to the blog post . To look for the archive tool , go to Settings and scroll to the bottom . If the feature is enabled , users will have the option to request their archive there . Users will receive an e-mail with instructions on how to access the archive once it 's been downloaded . The archive tool was a result of one of Twitter 's quarterly `` Hack Weeks , '' during which employees take breaks from their regular jobs to work on new and innovative projects of their choosing . Check out the Twitter typo that left the U.N. red-faced . How to see your 2012 highlights on Twitter . Opinion : Why the pope and Obama turned to Twitter .
Twitter users can view or search all their tweets with a new archive tool . Twitter rolled out the tool to a small percentage of users on Wednesday . The coming weeks and months will bring archive to all users . It lets Twitter users search tweets by date , keywords or user names .