How to Download Message History in Your Twitter Archive

Do you have an account at Twitter for a long time and would like to rescue some memories from the social network? There is a tool on the platform itself that provides a folder with all the content that has already been published or republished by you in your account.

Today we are going to teach you how to download message history in your twitter archive🇧🇷 Depending on the demand, the file can take up to a day to be ready, and when it is, the platform itself informs you about the availability. Come see how it works!

You can also download, in HTML and JSON formats, a machine-readable file of the information associated with your account. We include information that we believe is most relevant and useful to you, such as your profile information, your Tweets, your Direct Messages, your Moments, your media (images, videos, and GIFs you've attached to Tweets, Direct Messages, or Moments), a list of your followers, a list of accounts you are following, your address book, Lists you have created, follow or participate in, interests and demographic information we infer about you, information about advertisements that you've seen or interacted with on Twitter and more.

Excerpt about what you can find in your Twitter archive

How to download your Twitter archive

• When accessing your Twitter account through the browser, click on “More“, last option with three dots icon in the left column

• Now select the option “Settings and Support” and then the first option, “Your account“. Now click on “Download a file with your data";

• On the next screen, enter the senha which gives access to your Twitter;

• After entering the password, the platform will offer two options for confirming your identity: via email or text message (SMS)🇧🇷 For this tutorial, we chose SMS. Enter the code sent and click next

• Returning to the Twitter page, a blue button will now appear, “request file🇧🇷 Click on it. The platform also informs you that you will be notified when your file is ready, since there is a deadline for 24h —or more—to get it ready;

• Once the file is ready, you will receive a notification via Twitter informing you of its availability. When you click on this notification, just like in the previous steps, you will have to enter your password and an authenticity verification method — via email or SMS. After you have gone through these steps again, the button “Download file“, select it;

• The following screen shows another button “Download file“, this time showing the date the file was generated, when it expires and its total size. By clicking on this button, the Twitter file will finally be downloaded;

• Now that the file has been downloaded, you just need to extract the folders and check them out! There are folders with images you've posted or retweeted, as well as files in JavaScript that the ideal is to open them by the Google Chrome🇧🇷 Now just check out everything its history has to offer!

I particularly found the resource very interesting, since I could find very old photos that I had not saved. And you, what did you think of the tool? Have you used it to check old tweets and photos? Tell us in the comments!

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