Rick Klau
Dan GillmorBefore leaving Twitter, consider archiving your Tweets on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. https://help.archive.org/help/how-to-archive-your-tweets-with-the-wayback-machine/
Scott Michaud@dangillmor There's also an export function in your settings. Takes a while to build the blob though.
Tyrone Joseph@scottmichaud @dangillmor
Hey I have a question..
Last year, my unvaccinated sister died of covid and I posted a rant about disinformation that went viral. I received an unbelievable amount of support and well wishes that I wanted to eventually share with her children. I want to make sure I can save those messages and all of my pictures. Where do I turn to find help or information on saving all those messages and pictures?
#migration
Hey I have a question..
Last year, my unvaccinated sister died of covid and I posted a rant about disinformation that went viral. I received an unbelievable amount of support and well wishes that I wanted to eventually share with her children. I want to make sure I can save those messages and all of my pictures. Where do I turn to find help or information on saving all those messages and pictures?
#migration
This export process will only get your tweets and images. I don't know the best way to grab other people's tweets unfortunately.
A quick and dirty mechanism could be to screen record yourself scrolling through it with OBS, and preserving the video, if that can be done in a reasonable time.
Archnemysis@scottmichaud @TyJoseph @dangillmor I would recommend this method as well for your particular purpose. You can even make it more special by playing a favorite song of hers as the soundtrack. An easy way to do something like this would be to use Google Meet or Zoom with you presenting the screen and recording the meet.
edtechsInfo@TyJoseph @scottmichaud @dangillmor there is a Google script floating around (I used it in 2012) to keep a similar record. I'll try to find it... https://hawksey.info/blog/2012/01/twitter-archive-tagsv3/ he has an updated one. You can follow the link on this page. @mhawksey
Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet TAGS v3
Important: Changes to Twitter API Because Twitter are making changes to their API this version of TAGS will stop working in March 2013. TAGSv5.0 is compatible with the new API and you should get it here! For existing TAGS users: What will happen to my existing TAGS sheets? When Twitter turn off the old API (test […]
Keith Whyte@edtechsInfo @scottmichaud @dangillmor @mhawksey
Just in case #google didn't already scrape a complete copy of your twitter history, this seems like a good way to hand it to them on a plate.
David Beach@dangillmor or just blow it up. Tweets are ephemeral. Twitter is a thought toilet.
Justin Maxwell@dangillmor i just deleted mine. easier.
Nate Harris@dangillmor this would imply that I have said anything on Twitter worth other people's time.
Tsumami 
Keith@nwithan8 @dangillmor
#Mastodon has you covered on this: you can now easily set #visibility to mentioned accounts only and then not mention anyone.
#Mastodon has you covered on this: you can now easily set #visibility to mentioned accounts only and then not mention anyone.
🌲🧿 "Max"t💽d🏵️n 🔎🍄@dangillmor Don't give them your ID though.
Donncha Ó Caoimh@dangillmor or export them and put them on your #WordPress site. There's a handy script floating about that imports them into WordPress. That's what I did at https://odd.blog/tweets/
Adam West-ish@dangillmor incredibly useful. So many websites I designed and published were deleted because Google used to recommend that webmasters include a "robots.txt" in their webserver root folder.
Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!)@dangillmor I tried, but got this error: https://home.social/@egallager/109521805753381188
Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!) (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image So, I tried the @[email protected]'s new "upload your tweets" service (where you put the tweets dot js from your archive into a Google Sheet), and got this error:
@egallager Not sure what is going on but looks like a Google error?
Carl Malamud@dangillmor @egallager it's an internet archive nginx error, they need to boost the client_max_body_size parameter in their nginx configuration file and then restart.
@dangillmor @egallager The @internetarchive has boosted their client upload parameter. Give it another try!
@carlmalamud @dangillmor @internetarchive ok giving it a try now; a progress bar sure would be nice...
@carlmalamud @dangillmor @internetarchive question: https://home.social/@egallager/109525892994915618
Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!) (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] just imported my tweets dot csv into a Google Sheet and I just realized... if it's just a list of Twitter URLs... is the fact that my account is banned going to be an issue?
@egallager @dangillmor I got the same error, wrote to their tech team to let them know. There's an easy fix.
Niina PakolaThank you for the tip! Waiting to have my archive. I've been thinking close my Twitter-account.
Brian Freeman@NiinaPakola @dangillmor I just closed down my Twitter account but I'm still using Instagram anyways
Geri ™
@Geri Fairly sure you have to do that in any case...
@dangillmor I believe you can just leave, delete account, without making a backup.
I have deleted all my tweets but left my account live to prevent someone impersonating me.
@Geri Keeping the account for that reason, to thwart imposters...
@dangillmor I am nobody of consequence but would not wish anyone else to share such fame 😀
Ciarán Ferrie
Weaverwerx@dangillmor - Great idea! I appreciate this link. Also tweeted it out, could be a great form of protest of ten of thousands or more accounts all request an archive all at once...
Chris W@dangillmor Thank you for this. I deactivated only a few weeks ago, so reactivated just to grab my data. A decade of using a platform shouldn’t just be snuffed because of one unstable guy.
Lizbeth Morningstar@dangillmor @dragonmagic Hey dragon, check this post see if it helps you to download your tweets
🐲Friday ACAB🐉@LizbethMorningstar @dangillmor rad! Thank you for sharing
@dangillmor Twitter has ability to delete those archived tweets from Wayback
AccordionBruce@dangillmor @openculture as I understand it The Internet Archive method will only archive your most recent tweets. You need to use Twitter’s archive export function. However long that lasts
(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️🌈@dangillmor What does the google process do with my tweets? I mean does it archive it or does it throw away my data after it CSV's it? Where's the TOSes?
Misanthropesq@dangillmor I started the export process yesterday. Then, like the heroine of a romantic comedy, I looked around me, saw that the things I cared about were really elsewhere, and closed my account without waiting.
Matthew Dullenkopf@dangillmor he banned me before I could.
meeech@dangillmor Honest question: Why archive it? For most of us it was just ephemeral conversations and customer support requests.
Gordon J Holtslander@dangillmor Wayback machine record of a twitter abuser was instrumental in Canadian pastor’s resignation. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/lutheran-pastor-accused-anonymous-harassment-twitter-resigned-1.6662897
Colby Olson@dangillmor Thank you! I put a request in. 😁
@dangillmor … +++ …
Antonio Piccolboni@dangillmor That approach fails for me when loading tweet.js into a google sheet, unless I am missing something. Not that my tweets are worth saving, I just wanted to be able to help others.
ArdentArchivist@dangillmor
Also: don’t delete your Twitter account if this concerns you:
I’m informed (feel free to confirm/disprove) that 30 days after you delete your Twit account, anyone else can open an account, grab your old handle and potentially impersonate you.
So leave a pinned tweet with your Mastodon handle so ppl can find you, delete the Twit app from your phone, and forget Lone Stink & his bird site. But leave your account open/dormant to foil the bad actors.
Franke James@dangillmor Great idea! My bird archive dates back to 2008, and comes up in Google searches. It would be terrific to have the links work through the Wayback Machine.
MufasaIt's a bit unclear. I have my final archive before I left Twitter months ago.
Your tweets need to be available live for archive.org to archive them, right?
europlus 
@ne1for23 @dangillmor I’m reading it as not - the tweets.js file seems to be what it works on. But I’ve just woken up and only has two sips of coffee and no “test it out” time at all 🤣
inthedeltawaves@dangillmor archiving my tweets sounds like my worst nightmare.
Michael K JohnsonI'm not currently planning to delete my tweets, just stop tweeting, but also I think that archiving them would be smart. Not everything I tweeted is worth remembering, but some of what I said I was trying to contribute to a general store of knowledge...
It's wonderful that the Internet archive is making this facility available.
John Irons <freeBlueCheckMark>@dangillmor yea, ok, but is there a way to delete them forever? Asking for a friend
@johnirons I'd bet anything Twitter keeps what you think you've deleted.
Mark Saltveit@dangillmor
All of them? That seems obnoxious, both a burden on Internet Archive and an overvaluation of 90% ephemeral tweets.
Individual tweets of genius? Sure, go for it. I mostly use the Wayback Machine to archive Twitter mis-steps by assholes, the things they will later claim happened because they "were hacked."
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