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Use Tweetake To Back Up Your Twitter
If you're a heavy Twitter user, you've no doubt accumulated a huge collection of tiny text messages. Losing all that information would be a giant pain, but how do you save a copy for yourself? Have a look at Tweetake!
The interface is dead simple: enter your Twitter username and password, select what you want to back up, and press Get 'em! to release the hounds.
Within a few seconds Tweetake presents you with a CSV file containing all your valuable messages. Tweetake grabs the sender's name and screen name, their location and description, timestamp, and the tweet text, along with just about all the other info that Twitter stores.
How many of you back up the files on your PC regularly? I'd wager the number backing up online data (like Twitter) is even lower. Play it safe, and back up your tweets!
The interface is dead simple: enter your Twitter username and password, select what you want to back up, and press Get 'em! to release the hounds.
Within a few seconds Tweetake presents you with a CSV file containing all your valuable messages. Tweetake grabs the sender's name and screen name, their location and description, timestamp, and the tweet text, along with just about all the other info that Twitter stores.
How many of you back up the files on your PC regularly? I'd wager the number backing up online data (like Twitter) is even lower. Play it safe, and back up your tweets!
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Mona N. said 7:52PM on 8-18-2008
If you happen to see this: "Oh no! Twitter says you've used up your hourly allowance of messages. Please try again later.", the exporting error is due to Twitter's hourly API pull limit. The developer suggests: "So if you use Tweetdeck or any similar Twitter clients, please shut them down and wait a few minutes before using Tweetake." http://bit.ly/2CVzwA
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Jan Tallent said 6:51PM on 8-18-2008
This is wonderful and I am sure lots of tweeple are going to love it! I know a lot of us were in a panic when we lost followers and those we followed. Thank you!
Jan Tallent
http://twitter.com/jantallent
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Jan Tallent said 6:57PM on 8-18-2008
This is wonderful and I am sure lots of tweeple are going to love it!
I know a lot of us were in a panic when we lost followers and those we
followed. Thank you!
Jan Tallent
http://twitter.com/jantallent
http://www.rimdigest.com
http://www.jantd.com
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zephroelectro said 12:31PM on 8-19-2008
I must say this sounds like a useful feature for users of that service...however the illustration along with it gave me the idea that it is somehow a task that people are doing because the site could loose your data.
Personally, if that was the case....is it not the task that a website owner should be insuring is happening?
The backup of data that is. I mean if there is indeed the chance it could be lost, and not at the users fault but at the site fault...then maybe the service should do some backing up of their own :)
Of course I only thought this due to the picture, the actual function of being able to backup all your data stored on a website sounds very good.
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Master Bruce said 12:38PM on 8-19-2008
Do we really need to back up tweets? Talk about information glut.
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xlerate said 2:00PM on 8-19-2008
i simply wish they would fix the 10 page limit bug.
this is very annoying and their explanation is that is affecting some, not all users.
wish i would have known about this after realizing that my old tweets would not be available.
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David Sterry said 9:57PM on 9-13-2008
We've just started offering download of your Twitter message archive at Tweet Scan. This can include not only your messages but also your replies. This is not free but we think it'll be worth it for companies and the more serious bloggers and tweeple out there. It's powered by our own database of tweets that we've captured since December 2007. It's at https://www.tweetscan.com/data.php
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