GUIDE: Backup all your Twitter tweets with Twistory!

What if Twitter got attacked and lost all the tweets? Literally all of them? Well would you be sad about all your hard work?  Well then, it makes sense to backup and export all your tweets and although there is no official way of doing it; I have found the perfect explanation.  The answer is Twistory.net and if you have a twitter account you have no excuse to not use this service!

Twistory is undoubtedly the missing part of the Twitter puzzle now enabling you to crawl back through the archives to words you tweeted last year! With Twistory you can very very easily, and I’m not kidding how easy the process is, export all your tweets to your computers calendar application like iCal, Outlook, Thunderbird or Google Calendar.  You simply enter your Twitter name then click a link and it downloads them all to your application.  Normally new tweets take about 24 hours to become available in your calendar application and I found (at least in iCal) you may have to manually refresh the Twistory feed every time you want to update them in your calendar.

Then you have an amazing presentation of all your tweets pinned down to the time and day you tweeted them. Wondering what you did last Christmas Eve? Well with a simple change of months you can click on the 24th December and see what the heck you tweeted. You did tweet on Christmas Eve right? Anyway this service is a great tool for keeping your tweets backed up, in a type of diary style and I’ve had no problems with it. You can even see your tweeting patterns how much of an increase (or decrease) in tweets you’ve made!

So if you’re a Twitter user then this is a must use service unless you are not bothered about (potentially) losing your tweets.  As long as they are a bit more constructive than “I’ve just had a Coca Cola” then Twistory.net will mean something to you.  Do you use another service or do you find Twistory.net satisfactory? Let us know with a comment below!