If you can’t trust Twitter to actually restore all your followers, friends and whatever (such as seen in a recent outage), then TweeTake will help you suck it all down into an Excel spreadsheet.
The tool worked well and they bring up a couple good points after asking yourself, why in the heck would you want to do this:
- Twitter doesn’t keep tweets forever folks. Looks like 90 days is the cutoff, so all the old tweets go poof
- If you want to switch username and still follow the same people, this would make life much easier.
So give it a shot. Keep in mind they ask for your username and password.
re: “Twitter doesn’t keep tweets forever folks. Looks like 90 days is the cutoff, so all the old tweets go poof”
Hi. According to a thread in Twitter’s GetSatisfaction site (See link here), any Twitter user should be able to view the last 160 pages of their own archive, equivalent to 3,200 tweets… regardless of the date these tweets were sent.
There’s a bug that currently limits this to around 40+ pages (the bug is the subject of the link above).
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