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Importing/Backup Twitter Status'
Importing, Backing Up, and Exporting Twitter Status'
First, here's what I've found that is already doing the export, it allows you to export your contacts as a CSV file... http://bradkellett.com/tweetdumpr/ (limited to the first 250 most recent status updates). It's still very limiting.
However there is a problem that is not addressed. How do you import what you've exported? It makes sense you can't doing anything with your exports if you can't import them anywhere.
In addition to importing the status, this function should keep the date/time of the original twitter status, that's part of what makes twitter powerful.
An alternative solution to the problem....
Another solution to this is Twitter creates an tool that functions internally to allow the importing from from one account to another keeping the dates and times legit (and whatever other tracking information) as Twitter doesn't want bad information to be imported. I see this as a awesome tool for anyone changing account usernames, or making a backup of their Twitter status. That's my reason for becoming interested in this topic.
I would highly recommend Twitter working on this or a tool similar to this.
First, here's what I've found that is already doing the export, it allows you to export your contacts as a CSV file... http://bradkellett.com/tweetdumpr/ (limited to the first 250 most recent status updates). It's still very limiting.
However there is a problem that is not addressed. How do you import what you've exported? It makes sense you can't doing anything with your exports if you can't import them anywhere.
In addition to importing the status, this function should keep the date/time of the original twitter status, that's part of what makes twitter powerful.
An alternative solution to the problem....
Another solution to this is Twitter creates an tool that functions internally to allow the importing from from one account to another keeping the dates and times legit (and whatever other tracking information) as Twitter doesn't want bad information to be imported. I see this as a awesome tool for anyone changing account usernames, or making a backup of their Twitter status. That's my reason for becoming interested in this topic.
I would highly recommend Twitter working on this or a tool similar to this.
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Inappropriate?Hi Nathan. If your main objective is to change the username, you can do so at http://twitter.com/account/settings (without having to go through an export-and-import process).
When you change the username, all properties of the original account (followers, friends, replies, favorites, updates) remain intact. Only the username has changed.
Note: As soon as you change the old username to a new one, the old username becomes available again (to everyone). So if you intend to use the old username with a new account, I suggest you create the new account as quickly as possible to reclaim the old username using the new account.
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Inappropriate?That worked!
The only thing I would add to what you said, is 1) the username becomes available *immediately* (this was important fact/keyword because needed to swap usernames) and 2) not "only" the username is changed, but the URL is also changed.
I’m Glad I got another way to accomplish the same thing.
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Inappropriate?Is it possible through a method in the API to backup *all* your own status (when identified)?4 Comments Add a comment
This is one of the best points
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You can only back up up to 6,400, I've asked for this to be extended with no response. -
how do you retrieve all available tweets? Do I have to loop through all the pages - doesn't it make sense to make one call?
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Loop through, but you can use count=200 to show the most tweets per page then you only have to grab 32 pages
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what's to stop me from using a larger count number? It seems to work, even for over 3000.
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Inappropriate?>Thomas
How can you get up to 6400? I can get up to 3200 then I failed
