Backup Your Tweets
2009 October 25
I love Twitter and I’ve been searching for a way to backup my tweets locally to my computer. I have finally found a simple and effective solution. Try Tweetake.com. You can not only backup your tweets, but also your followers, favorites, direct messages, and friends as a CSV (comma separated value) file to save on your computer. Worth noting is the fact that you can only access up to 3,200 of your most recent tweets. This is due to restrictions of the Twitter API. I am currently nowhere near that limit, though.
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I did a little research into the 3,200 tweet backup limitation. I copied the following text from Twitter’s API Wiki:
Clients may request up to 3,200 statuses via the page and count parameters for timeline REST API methods. Requests for more than the limit will result in a reply with a status code of 200 and an empty result in the format requested. Twitter still maintains a database of all the tweets sent by a user. However, to ensure performance of the site, this artificial limit is temporarily in place.
The Twitter backup site Tweetake doesn’t seem to work anymore. I’ve given up and now use Backupify instead. http://www.backupify.com/