by Celine Roque
August 28, 2009 at 12:35 pm
· Filed under AppGap Tips, social media
A few months ago I wrote articles on how to store a backup of Google Docs and Gmail accounts – both quite helpful as these services sometimes go down when you need them most. These are great for saving documents, but you might ask, what about your other data stored online, say on social media sites?
Here are various ways in which to keep a local copy for the most popular services’ contents:
TWITTER
Why create a backup: Twitter only archives your latest 3,200 tweets, and past this limit your earlier tweets are automatically discarded. If you’re a heavy user it’s easy to exceed this in a few months.
RSS – Simplest method is to grab your own tweet feed via a locally installed RSS reader like Feed Demon or RSS Captor.
Tweetake – Allows backup of followers, friends, favorites, and of course your tweets by compiling them into a CSV file.
Backup My Tweets – A free web app that does what its name says. It’s main advantage is that it allows you to export a summary of your tweets in HTML, PDF, and JSON.
FACEBOOK
Why create a backup: Just for posterity, or just in case your account gets deactivated. Plus, who knows if Facebook will still be around after 10 years?
Social Safe – A powerful paid application (just $3) based on Adobe AIR that it backs up most of the things inside your Facebook account, including your profile, pictures, and friend list. One glaring limitations is that it doesn’t (yet) provide a mechanism to backup status messages and their accompanying comments.
Photo Download – Photo Download allows you to get both tagged photographs and photo albums that you and your friends have uploaded to Facebook on to your own computer. Compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X.
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These are good tips Celine. A CSV file of your tweets? That’s pretty cool. I’ve been using FriendFeed for my what I call my Personal Content Database. It’s a single point where all your various social media streams can be collected. It has great search features, and is a way to backup content from your various sites.
Now if only Facebook retains these capabilities.
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theappgap wrote @ August 28th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
New Post “How to backup your social media accounts” http://bit.ly/pZcA1
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Katrina_D wrote @ August 28th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
RT @theappgap New Post “How to backup your social media accounts” http://bit.ly/pZcA1 Do you want to keep all your tweets?
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How to backup your social media accounts http://bit.ly/TmgxQ
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RT @PrimoAssistance: How to backup your social media accounts http://bit.ly/TmgxQ
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eugenelee wrote @ August 29th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Looks potentially useful “How to backup your social media accounts” http://bit.ly/1gdL2
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RT @eugenelee: Looks potentially useful “How to backup your social media accounts” http://bit.ly/1gdL2
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bhc3 wrote @ August 29th, 2009 at 9:31 am
How to backup your social media accounts http://bit.ly/kUpUj Twitter, Facebook backup apps. Note, FriendFeed great for this too
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how to backup your social media accounts (in case they do a magnolia) http://bit.ly/1gdL2
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#JSB (for those that need backup) RT @bhc3: How to backup your social media accounts http://bit.ly/kUpUj Twitter, Facebook backup apps.
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How to back up your social media accounts. This is amazingly simple. http://bit.ly/1gdL2
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happygeek wrote @ August 30th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
RT @ron_miller How to back up your social media accounts. This is amazingly simple. http://bit.ly/1gdL2
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lyceum wrote @ September 1st, 2009 at 5:14 am
Be sure to read “How to backup your social media accounts” by Celine Roqueb @TheAppGap. http://bit.ly/2NpOuY
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