This summer, Dick Costolo, Twitter CEO, commented that the company was working on a tool that would allow users to download all your activity (in the same way that we can download the activity of some Google through Google Takeout services) without resorting to third-party services that have limitations on the number of old tweets that you can download. Costolo said that the tool could be ready by the end of this year and, apparently, Twitter is fulfilling what was promised because this tool is starting to be available to some users.


This tool will be available between the user profile settings and, as it happens with the analog tool from Google, the collection of messages takes a good while and after the backup application, Twitter send an email to the user indicating that the process is complete and you can proceed with the downloading of their content. The backup file is a compressed file in zip format, in which there is an HTML file in which all the tweets sent by users in chronological order are forming a calendar (distributing messages by months and years).

Go to Twitter settings. Scroll down to "Your Twitter Archive". Download ALL your tweets. Even your first. DO IT. OJ EEEEEET NOW!

There are several users who are reporting, via Twitter, that they have this functionality already active and, in fact, they have proceeded to discharge all its activity even if the option is not active to everybody yet (neither nor Twitter has made no official statement on the matter) and, taking into account that Costolo has commented several times (even last month) that during the month of December this option I would be active, we hope that before the end of the year (and we left 15 days) is announced officially this new option unless, of course, the project had been delayed and this is a kind of bounded beta or a glitch.

The initiative comes within Google what they are doing or even Facebook to facilitate the unloading of a good portion of the data that have been uploaded to these platforms, for example, face to have a backup on hand or as a prelude to unsubscribe from the service and, in the case of Twitter, can also help us to locate old tweets which has never been anything easy or comfortable to enter the interface users Twitter (with this so annoying scroll) and that, even using third-party applications, is quite limited (with a limit of 3,200 messages).