3 ways to easily export your tweets

August 9, 2010 in Christian Living

Sometimes it can be useful to export your tweets (or someone else’s).

  1. Searchtastic. Type in a Twitter username, press enter, and you’ll get a link to download an Excel spreadsheet of all the tweets for that user. This is my preferred tool – it’s free, easily, and reliable.
  2. TweetScan Backup. This is also a very handy tool that allows you to select what you’d like to export – your tweets, your friends, direct messages, @replies, followers, favourite tweets – or a full archive. It will then export as a .CSV or HTML file.
  3. TwitPrint. You’ll need to sign-in with your own account (i.e. you can’t get an export of another user), but TwitPrint does include some handy features, e.g. the ability to only print tweets that include particular keywords. It will also enable you to get a pretty print-out of your selected tweets. A similar tool is Print Your Tweets.

For more on this topic, check out ‘10 ways to archive your tweets‘ from Read Write Web.

On a related note, Twitter Export allows you to export a list of the friends or followers or a particular Twitter user, as a .CSV file.

Update:

  1. twDocs is another nifty tool. One of the good features of this tool is the ability to choose the file type you’d like to export to – e.g. PDF, TXT, CSV and more.
  • machigai

    I’ve been looking for something that lets you keep other people’s tweets forever. All those archive websites only let you keep your own tweets. thanks for this!