We’re purging accounts which have had no exercise in any respect for a number of years, so you’ll most likely see follower rely drop
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 8, 2023
For anybody frightened about dropping entry to the tweets of individuals they knew or adopted who’re not tweeting, there are few choices to avoid wasting these reminiscences.
For profiles with only a few tweets, you would possibly be capable to print a web page from the browser and reserve it as a PDF, export it as an HTML file, seize it with a couple of screenshots and even copy and paste the textual content right into a file. Nonetheless, the way in which Twitter masses profile pages, particularly ones with a whole bunch or 1000’s of tweets, can depart these recordsdata incomplete.
The best technique to get a full doc of all tweets from somebody’s account is to make use of a particular device for screenshots. GoFullPage is a free Chrome extension that creates an entire PDF or PNG file of posts from one profile. Set up it on Chrome, navigate to the web page you need to save, and choose the plug-in. It would break lengthy profiles into a number of recordsdata.
The Web Archive’s Wayback Machine can archive webpages on request. Go to the web page for saving webpages, net.archive.org/save. Paste the URL for the profile you need them to archive. For those who can, log in first to get extra choices, like an electronic mail, when it’s accomplished. There may be additionally a Wayback Machine Chrome extension in case you are planning to make use of it for a number of web sites.
If you wish to save a replica of your tweets, since you worry Twitter’s loss of life or your personal, you’ve extra choices.
From Twitter, go to Settings → Your Account → Obtain an Archive of Your Information. After leaping by way of a couple of safety hoops, you’ll be capable to request your information as a zipper file through the “request archive” button. The archived info ought to embrace your account info, account historical past, apps and gadgets, account exercise, pursuits and advert information.
When you’ve made the request, you’ll want to attend, generally as much as a day or extra. You need to obtain an in-app notification when the archive is able to be downloaded and could have a restricted period of time to entry the recordsdata.
You possibly can ship the file to individuals or reserve it someplace they’ll entry it later, however a neater choice is to add it on to the Wayback Machine so everybody can get pleasure from your biggest hits.
