Backup your friends and followers on Twitter

Posted on 26. Jul, 2008 by John in Twitter

Found this handy tip to backup your friends and followers if you are worried about the whale stealing them again.

  1. Put http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.xml in your address bar of your browser
  2. Save this page in your browser and read it as an XML file, with for example excel. If you have a lot of followers then use http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.xml?page=2 and so on.
  3. For your friends use the same process with this link http://twitter.com/statuses/friends.xml

Now you should have all your contacts and followers backed up. Job Done

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2 Responses to “Backup your friends and followers on Twitter”

  1. Tweetake-Twitter Backup:In case Twitter turns out to be unreliable! || Technology Nerd

    24. Aug, 2008

    [...] In case you want to follow a manual method, follow the steps below courtesy tweetcrunch: [...]

  2. Twitter backup. How to backup twitter. | Backup Anytime

    24. Nov, 2008

    [...] How do you do this? Thankfully there are a number of applications and services which can assist you. You may depending on personal preference and infrastructure to run with twitter online backup or twitter off line backup I like twittersafe which is in Beta release at present but does what it sais on the tin and promises more on the twitter safe beta release page. Another solution is to do it your self as advised on tweetcrunch. [...]

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