Tools to Backup your Twitter Posts & Followers
After the latest Twitter worm, I have been pondering the consequences of loosing my twitter posts and followers and it almost left me breathless! I scoured the internet for tools that would allow me to export all of my posts so I can restore from backup in case something happened.
I found two great tools, backed up all of my twitter posts and followers and now I’m happy as a lark 
Tweetake is a very easy to use tool that lets you backup your followers, friends, favorites, direct messages and tweets in a single click. The software exports your selected data into a CSV file, which can be opened with Excel or any text editor. To get started, just enter your Twitter username and password
Tweetbackup is also a very easy to use tool. Right now you can only export your twitter posts and according to Tweetbackup you would be able to export your friends in the very near future. Although this tool is more limited than Tweetake in the export options, I do like that you can export your posts into different formats…RSS, HTML, and TEXT. Another neat feature of this tool is the Restore feature, which allows you to restore your posts to Twitter from an existing backup. You can also backup multiple profiles and do not need to enter passwords to do the backup(s).
Do you use other tools? Share them with us in the comments section.
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Hi, thought I’d just mention a weekend project of mine,
Sparrw (http://sparrw.com/) which does continuous automatic
backup of tweets (but only posts, doesn’t back up friends
or settings), kind of like TweetBackup.
The difference is that besides downloading the backup you
can set up mail delivery (e.g. once a month) so you don’t
have to manually visit the site to download the backup
(but you can if you wish).
There’s also an summary RSS feed option so your tweet
summaries can e.g. be integrated with your blog, etc.