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by sitic 1304 days ago
Probably a good time to download an archive of your Twitter data: https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data
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I've been waiting for an archive of my data for 3 days now. And my activity on Twitter is probably bottom 25%.
Probably done by one of the microservices they turned off.
Happy to report that it actually has happened in the end.
In my experience, this has stopped working as of at least a few days ago. I can request, but the button never fills. I'm happy I did it a few months ago, at least
Unfortunately it may no longer be an option as some have said the 2FA SMS needed to download the archive is not responsive.
2FA SMS just worked for me. I have little faith that I'll ever actually receive the zip archive, though.
Mine had an option for e-mail or SMS. Never got the SMS, but e-mail worked.

I love how it says "To protect your account" it can take 24 hours or longer for your data to be ready.

"It takes 24 hours" is a clear sign that it's a human being looking up an internal documentation page and running the scripts it points to.

Unless I'm just not creative enough to reason why you can log into twitter from a country you've never been to with no 24 hour verification wait but fulfilling legal obligations takes 24 hours.

In their defense, if the backup requires accessing archive tape drive records, long processing queues in non-scalable systems, etc - this could easily take 24 "physical" hours of things getting lined up correctly.

It's one thing to show you the last 24hr of tweets. Another to get a complete twitter history for given uid.

Your point? When I go to that URL, I get

{"errors":[{"code":410,"message":"You need to verify your password before you can view this content."}]}

Ah -- if you're logged in and have requested to download your data, it produces a PDF with a bunch of private account info, looks vaguely like that's publicly exposed, but it's probably not.

Might have given someone a fright, until they realized what was happening, and that it was dynamic content, of course.

Does it of you're not logged in too, actually
I am actually able to download a pdf
Everyone hitting this today is the equivalent of a run on a bank and actually kill it.
If this is not working for you, https://www.tweetbeaver.com may help somewhat depending on what you need.
I have all my tweets set to delete after 2 weeks. For many reasons, and now +this.