Twitter has become part and parcel of our everyday lives. Your tweets, media and direct messages might contain critical information for your personal life or online business. A Twitter backup protects against the risk of losing your Twitter data, which can occur due to a ban or a voluntary exit from the platform.
Key Takeaways:
- You can do a Twitter backup by downloading your Twitter archive to your local device or uploading it to the cloud.
- While a local backup of your Twitter archive is safe, it becomes inefficient when you lose your device or accidentally damage it.
- Cloud backup offers a way to store your Twitter data, so that if anything happens to your device, your data will still be intact.
In this article, we’ll show you how to backup your Twitter account to the cloud or a local device. If you want to learn how to back up other social media channels, you can read our how to back up social media guide.
Twitter allows you to download an archive of all your tweets, replies, followers, media, lists, address book and direct messages. Twitter requires you to check that your email address is confirmed, and that you’re logged in to your Twitter account on the same browser you’re using to download the Twitter archive. It may take a few days for Twitter to send the archive to your email.
Twitter also allows you to download a machine-readable archive containing data related to your account in HTML and JSON files. Follow the steps below to back up your Twitter data.
Saving your Twitter archive to your local device goes a long way toward keeping it safe, but it’s still possible to lose your data if your device breaks or gets stolen. Cloud backup gives you the assurance that copies of your Twitter archive are stored on off-site servers, keeping your data intact even if a disaster were to occur.
We usually recommend IDrive for cloud backup because of its affordability and large feature set. If you’re looking for more options for cloud backup, you can check our list of the best cloud backup services.
Although IDrive does not offer social media backup, you can save the downloaded copy of your Twitter account to IDrive (read our IDrive review to learn more). Follow the steps below to do this.
Twitter stands out from other social media networks because it is the place to be if you want to know what’s happening and communicate your opinions and values. This makes it a great platform for connecting with like-minded people and promoting an online brand.
If you’re on Twitter for either of these purposes, you definitely have valuable data on the platform that you can’t afford to lose. Backing up your Twitter account ensures you can always access your direct messages and other data, even if you leave the platform — or if the Twitter platform collapses under Elon Musk’s management.
Your Twitter archive is a repository holding all the valuable data you’ve accrued on the platform over time.
The archive should contain your profile information, tweets, direct messages, moments, media, a list of your followers, a list of accounts that you are following, your address book, your Twitter lists, interest and demographic information, information about ads you’ve seen or engaged with, and more.
Final Thoughts
Considering how important social media has become in our everyday lives, backing up your Twitter archive is a no-brainer. Doing this means you don’t have to go through the pain of starting over, especially if you decide you want to leave the platform.
Both local and cloud backup enable you to back up your Twitter archive easily. It’s even a good idea to use both methods, as they don’t take much time and complement each other.
Did you use any of our methods to backup your Twitter account? How did it go? Let us know in the comment section below, and as always, thanks for reading.
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