Users can go back and look at the suspended (and since reinstated) account, for example. The Internet Archive, a digital library based in the United States, also collects many Twitter streams, both through its Wayback Machine and its subscription service Archive-It, where members can choose and curate the accounts that they collect. Then in December 2017, the Library of Congress moved from a collect everything approach to a “selective basis,” curating rather than taking everything. In 2010, the Library of Congress announced that it would both receive all the text of tweets dating back to 2006 and acquire them going forward. For a time, the most famous one was the Library of Congress’s Twitter archive. Twitter archives take several shapes and sizes. Given the centrality of this source, it is hard to believe that it could all disappear. This is doubly true for the spread of information during breaking events, when the platform itself became the main primary source for observers and participants.
For better or worse, Twitter has been with us throughout the last decade and a half: election cycles, the COVID-19 pandemic (where it has been an exemplar platform for misinformation and information alike), and online culture more generally (some tweets have even become TV shows).įuture historians may be able to learn about these things through media coverage of Twitter, but the ability to access the tweets themselves will be invaluable for historical research. This is terrible because the information that our society creates today is tomorrow’s historical record. Davis) The end of Twitter?Īmidst predictions of bankruptcy or even wholesale technical collapse, the cultural record of all of these critical moments are now endangered.
You should also have a Data folder where you’ll find media folders that contain photos, videos and GIFs you’ve sent or received on Twitter, Moments, direct messages or Fleets.Twitter has become an important site for information (and disinformation).There’s a search tool on the side of the page that will make it easier to find a specific post. For example, if you click on Tweets, you’ll be taken to a Twitter-like view of your posts.
Clicking on it should open a new tab in your default browser where you can view the history of your Twitter account interactively.Inside the folder, you’ll find a HTML file titled Your Archive.Download your archive and unzip the compressed file. Follow the link in the email or alert, which will direct you back to the Settings page on Twitter’s website.Once your archive is ready, Twitter will send you a push alert via the Twitter app as well as an email letting you know when your data is ready to download.You’ll need to verify it’s you requesting the archive (Picture: .uk) How to access your data once your Twitter archive is ready:
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