How, exactly, was I ever going to comb through all of this? Never fear, though: I bit the bullet and clicked the blue ”Request Data” button. Holy cow! That is insane, right? I was extremely excited at first… and then worried.
Not only will you receive the archive of every Tweet you have ever sent, you will also get copies of the following: However, I clicked that tiny little “Learn More” link and found out that the site will include so much more in my download. Twitter is going to decide what is important for me to download? What about all of my Tweets? That is what I wanted, after all. I’m not going to lie: this took me aback when I first read it. You’ll get a notification and an email sent to with a link when it’s ready to be downloaded. You can request a file with the information that we believe is most relevant and useful to you. The next thing you will see is the following message: Type it in and then click the blue ”Enter” button. You will now see large bold print which says ”Download Your Twitter Data” and prompting you to enter your password. On the right side, you will see a section titles ”Data and Permissions.” Find and click on ”Your Twitter Data.” Now, choose ”Settings and Privacy” from the pop-up menu.
How to Back Up Your Tweets by Downloading an Archiveįrom any page on the site, click the ”More” link on the left. In any case, downloading an archive of all of my Tweets is much less painful than I expected, so let me show you how. Will they be proud of everything I had to say on this particular platform? Of course not… but I have a feeling there is a lot they would like to see. I am also “vain” in the respect that I would like to think one day when I am gone, my daughters or grandkids may get a kick out of reading through the things I have written and discussed – sometimes passionately and heatedly defending a position on something.
Having my entire history downloaded via an archive would allow me to set up parameters to quickly search through and find what I need. It is the middle of the night and I am tired, but my math brain tells me that still leaves a bit over 17,000 Tweets that I would not be able to search through via scrolling. Wasting my time scrolling through and reading them all will not get me very far: the service only allows you to scroll back through the last 3200 messages you have sent. Perhaps one day I might need to search for something. In any case, I recently decided I wanted to make a backup of every single Tweet I had ever pushed the “Enter” button for.