How To Back Up Your Tweets

Once upon a time, not so long ago, Twitter suffered an outage that meant many Twitter users lost much of the data from their accounts. Followers and tweets all vanished with a puff of smoke. And bearing in mind our ever increasing reliable on Twitter, this could really cause a lot of anguish.

So it is that I recommend you consider backing up your Twitter account on a regular basis.

To this end I’ve been experimenting recently with some Twitter backup services to see what I think. And of the options I’ve found so far, I’ve got a personal favourite.

Tweetake is a free and super-simple service which will log into your Twitter account, download all the information from it and then allow you to save that as a tidy Excel spreadsheet on your computer. The only weakness I can see is that it is a manual process rather than allowing automatic weekly backups which I think would be a really nice feature. Hopefully Tweetake will implement that in the near future.

But for now you just enter your Twitter username and password and then select what information from your account you’d like to save. Then hey presto you just save the resultant file onto your computer and you’re all done!