Tweetake the Twitter backer upper
Back in July when Twitter encountered (created?) a problem that in some cases decimated people’s followers, I suggested that third parties need to take steps to cover Twitter’s arse. Today I became aware of Tweetake which will backup your Twitter account to an Excel file. As it explains on the Tweetake website: “The brainchild of Alfred Armstrong and Nikki Pilkington, Tweetake is here to allow you to back-up your followers, people you are following and Tweets with just one click.” Read more of the About Tweetake here.
I tested it out and it provided me with the following columns:
- type (followers, friends, sent)
- id (Twitter message ID)
- name
- screen name
- location
- description
- profile image url (the Amazon S3 location of you pic)
- url
- protected [updates] (true/false)
- status date (date the tweet was posted)
- status text (the tweet)
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This is very cool!
What I’d like to see is for this to be automated. Backups have to be automatic to be effective. I don’t see how that can be accomplished via a website, but it would be handy if it were integrated into a Twitter client with the option to backup on exit (or startup) automatically.
-Al Degutis
