Data is the new currency. You might have heard this phrase before, and it's become the truth of today's generation. We upload tons of data daily on the Internet, specially on social media. Twitter with the user base of 390 million users collects multiple terabytes of data from users including user tweets, photos, videos, logs, etc. These data are collected in different data servers of Twitter and provided as per the need of users.
Twitter or any other social media platform are bounded by the rule of Data protection and privacy rules. By these rules they are not allowed to sneak, share or delete users data without any valid reason at their will. That's why you can download your data from Twitter anytime, unless the closure of your account from your side.
This blog post will help all the Twitter user who are either planning to close their account or want to take a backup of their twitter data. Twitter allow downloading your data in a very simple, straight way. First, you have to make a request that you require your data. Next, Twitter will take some time to collect all your data and bundle them in Zip File. You can download this zip file locally or upload it to cloud storage.
How to send a request to download your data from Twitter?
In the first part of downloading your data from Twitter, you have to send a request to Twitter server form to start the collection of your data. This can be done in a few clicks by following the steps below:
- Login to your Twitter account.
- Once you are in, check the left sidebar and click on More> Settings & Support>Settings and privacy.
- Now you are in Twitter account settings dashboard. In the left panel, click on Your Account.
- In the right panel, you will have a bunch of options. Tap on Download Your Information to start the process.
- Twitter may ask you for your account password if you are sending a request for the first time.
- After entering your Twitter password, hit continue to submit your data collection request.
- Twitter will show you a message that it will take some time to collect all the data, depending upon how much data is there in your account.
- If your account is pretty new, then, it may take less than an hour to collect all the data. But, if you have an old account with hundreds of tweets, photos, videos, comments, logs etc. then It may take up to a week to bundle everything.
- Check your Twitter account again after few days, you may find a download data button enabled at the same place. Twitter may ask your password to continue downloading.
- Tap on Download button to begin downloading. The size of zip file can be large, so you need to have fast Internet connection and enough disk space.
Following the above steps, you can easily download all your Twitter account data easily including your tweets, post, photos, videos, comments, likes, activity logs etc.
How to Download Your Data in Twitter app in Android?
The process of downloading data in Twitter app in android is very much similar to the PC or web version of Twitter. The only difference you find is the interface, but it's not at all difficult to do it. Following are the steps you need to download your data in Twitter app in Android:
- Open Twitter app in your android smartphone.
- Tap on your profile picture in the top left corner.
- Scroll down and tap on Settings & Privacy.
- The rest of the steps are almost the same as web version of Twitter.
- Go to Your Account > Download an Archive of your data.
- Enter your password if asked to begin the data collection process.
- Check back the same section in Settings after few hours or days to find out the status of your data collection.
- Once data collection is completed, you can download the archive of your Twitter account data locally in your phone.
Benefits of Downloading Your Data from Twitter Account
Although, Twitter will never delete your data unless your account violates any Twitter rules. But nothing is forever for granted, and that's why you should always keep backup of your data. Having a backup of your Twitter account data has the following benefits:
- If you are content creators, downloading data will keep your valuable content safe from any disaster.
- You can share your photos and videos to other platforms after downloading.
- You can take your photos and videos to any place where Internet is not available.
- Furthermore, you can share your media files locally with friends and family.
- Offline availability of Twitter data is helpful if you want to file a complaint or use it as evidence.
- Your Tweets, media files and logs will always be with you, even after you delete your account on Twitter.
Drawbacks of Downloading your Twitter Data
Although there are no such drawbacks of downloading your data from Twitter account, yet it's a lengthy process. Downloading your data once may take a week to complete, and it may not include all your latest tweets, photos and videos. That's why it's better to understand what are the problems you may face for downloading your Twitter data.
- You may not get the latest tweets, photos, and videos that you have uploaded after you sent a request to download your data.
- Offline files are prone to virus, corruption, or deletion, that's why you need to keep your Twitter data safe.
- Data collection is a long process and if you lost your password or violates any Twitter guidelines during this time, you will lose access to all your data.
- There is no way you can restore your tweets or media files automatically. Even if you download your data from twitter, you need to re-upload it manually.
- If you have uploaded heavy videos and photos to twitter or if you have a large amount of data on Twitter, then you have to sacrifice the same space in your local storage.