Twitter can be addictive. Once you get started with writing tweets, it can be difficult to stop. Unlike other social networks, Twitter has a wider sense of community outside of your own friends, largely because of the way hashtags can be used to comment on events as they happen and browse through tweets relating to a particular subject. Plus, it’s rather simple to churn out dozens of 140 character messages.
Twitter provides a special interface for searching the tweets in your archive, one that includes some ability to interact with old tweets, too. But your personal tweet archive comes in a zipped file and remains offline, not an active part of the online Twitter experience.
How to Download My Tweets Archive
You download your tweets through the Settings page on Twitter. Click the gear icon at the top of the Twitter menu and choose "Settings," then scroll to the very bottom of the settings page. The archive function is labeled "Your Twitter archive." It will offer an option called "Request your archive" for you to click.
Now, click on the Request your archive button. Twitter will notify you that they’re received your request, and that a link will be emailed to you when your download is ready.
This typically takes a few minutes to arrive, but is largely dependent on the size of your archive. Once you have the email (if you don’t see it about 15 minutes or so, check your junk mail), open it and you’ll see further instructions, including a Go now button.
Searching All My Tweets
After you download your tweet archive, you'll have a variety of options for viewing them. They'll be available in two formats. One is the standard data format of CSV, which is readable in a spreadsheet.
The other is a special format similar to Twitter's user interface, which will allow you to view the tweets from within your Web browser and browse them based on the month and year you sent them. The Twitter-like interface also will let you search all your tweets using keywords, phrases and hashtags.
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