Here are the instructions to export our data from Twitter.
Login into your Twitter account, click on the avatar icon (at top bar's right).
From the menu, choose Settings and privacy
, or
go to https://twitter.com/settings/account.
In the Seeings and privacy Twitter page, go to the botton of the page and choose Request your archive
A message will show up, telling that the exporting file is on its way:
IMPORTANT: This data export will be only for the public data on Twitter (tweets, favs, replies, retweets), but no direct message or non public conversation will be exported.
Go to your email, after waiting a little bit, and look for message from Twitter with a link to downlad your data:
TIP: Remember to look into your SPAM folder if your message don't arrive.
If you click on the "Download now" button you will see a screen similar to this one:
The file name that we download will look something like:
xxxYYYzzz_7f4206d8bae26af45ba2905899db4d77eab3e2af.zip
where xxxYYYzzz
corresponds to a unique identifier that Twitters gives to each user and the part after
the underscore (_
) corresponds to a specific index associated with the file that you just exported.
If you export your data in a different moment, this number will change.
Now you have two paths
- If data exportation was successful, go to the data publishing step.
If you don't get your data, you can wait more, or share this experience with the broader Twitter community. Amazingly Twitter, as many other web companies that hold and derive value of our data, does not provide any tracking number to address our data request or any other traceability facilities on empowering data rigths and giving back the value we create when we post on such networks. Use the #MissingMyData hashtag so we can raise awareness of this situation.