Hello welcome back to the happy hut, it's Sunday, I don't know why...
why the chair has been styled in such a way, let's sort that out
Hello welcome back to the Happy Hut, I’m Neil and you want to... you want
to back up your Twitter account don't you? That might be why you've clicked on this video.
I’m going to show you everything step by step How do you back up your entire Twitter account?
How do you back up your tweets maybe even [NOISE IN BACKGROUND]
maybe even your retweets your likes and even your photos
I’m going to do this right now in real time so that you can follow along
My son has just got a victory royale on Fortnite - [TO OFFSCREEN] okay, will do!
I’ve put all the time codes in the description so you can jump ahead if
you just want to see the backup now I’ve seen a few very high profile
cases of people losing their jobs from things that they've written like 10 years ago
Bad attempts at humour Bad attempts at self-expression
I can't help thinking that I don't stand by anything that I’ve ever written anywhere
Least of all on Twitter, so I don't need that stuff on Twitter
I don't need Twitter making money from bad attempts at humour in the past so
here is how I delete 5000 tweets Oh joe seriously what's up?
[JOE: OFFSCREEN] Make the intro shorter! So welcome to inside the happy hut
Let's go straight to my Twitter dashboard and on desktop where we
want to go is on the left hand side here We want to go down to “more” and then I’m
going to click on “settings and privacy” or privacy wherever you are in the world, hello!
And right under settings which is this column here, the very first option is your account
and the third option down is “download an archive of your data”
Get insights into the type of information stored for your account
So click on that, now I need to verify that it's me...
I can't handle all of these accounts everything I’m doing online right now needs to be deleted!
And then it reveals this page “Twitter data” You can request a zip file with an archive
of your account information, account history, request archive
Let's click on that We received your request.
To protect your account it can take 24 hours or longer for your data to be ready.
I should think so after 11 years, I think it probably shouldn't be ready instantly!
I didn't realize it could be up to 24 hours so let's do a time jump!
That stylish visual effect - let's do it again - there's been a passing of time,
it's now a day later and I’ve got this email: Your Twitter archive is ready for you to download,
so I’m going to hit the download button we'll see what happens... and that takes me straight
into Twitter straight into the settings Twitter data, your archive is ready for you
to download and view using your desktop browser. Keep in mind you need to download this data before
it expires, so we'll hit download archive Twitter data: “one of one”
I’ll hit download archive and it saves as a zip file and while that
is downloading I actually did some work last night deleting all the tweets that I wanted to delete
There are services available for you to delete tweets in bulk
I couldn't wait I just started deleting them, so here's how to manually bulk
delete - that's not really bulk deleting is it? It’s just deleting “a lot” of tweets
Here's the process What if you want to search
all of your tweets within a specific time period? Go to the advanced search I’ll put a link
in the description, maybe it's on screen now and that will open up this box: advanced search
And if I scroll down you can see all the options you can fill in here, from these accounts and then
I’m going to choose my account: @neilmossey and then say I want to check out all the
tweets from 2019,so I’d select January the 1st 2019 to December the 31st 2019,
and then if I click on search at the top of that box it opens up all the tweets which contain
the phrase or the account @neilmossey Confusingly it's ordered them by top priority so
I’m going to choose “latest” and that will present all of my tweets in reverse chronological order,
so if I wanted to delete these tweets manually - I’m going to keep that top one because I like it.
If you click on the three dots I’m going to start deleting here so delete...
delete and then delete... and I’m using my return key to hit delete when that delete
tweet window comes up I’ve just found this
way to do it ever so slightly more quickly If you hover your mouse over the three dots
and hit “more” just hit return on your keyboard - that brings up this dialog
Do you want it to delete? And you can hit return again so
I’m doing mouse click return return, and you can start to delete them at about this speed
I hope that helps you bulk delete your tweets manually and the advantage of this system is
you get to see your years fly by your eyes and you can also choose to not delete any
ones that leap out which spark joy But all of these are gonna go.
Let's go back now to the Twitter backup and see what exactly we get in the download
I’ll just scroll through the folder marked “data” so you can see the kind of files that we've got
in here, like moments media What's that?!
I’m going to open tweets media just to see what's here and let's open up one of these randomly
Right so this is a picture that I tweeted about 10 years ago and are they in order?
Yeah they seem to be in order It's Darth Vader wrapped up like a baby
These are the things that I do not need in my life and what's funny is that it
includes photos that I have retweeted over the years as well as my own photos
I don't know how do you feel about that with privacy?
If I open profile media this is my profile picture - whoa - this is my profile picture
All your profile pictures have their own folder Yeah these are the Happy Hut -- these are
my current profile photos and if I open the random file profile.js it brings up
pretty much the wording of my Twitter profile It's got my lists and my likes these are all
my likes that I have ever given in my entire history on Twitter
Wow it's... it's a lot of data Let's go back to this big file
here yourarchive.html and it's opened up an html page which is a pretty much an overview of my data
As this information is not all the data from your archive please open this folder
The file here labelled tweets.js seems to be an html file
An html file is a file that you can see in a web browser and this seems to have all my tweets
even though I’ve been deleting them The archive seemed to have grabbed
my tweets even though I was deleting it while the archive was being prepared,
and it's obviously quite difficult to read but you can still see the text of your tweets in here
Just to sort of translate the text, this is a tweet here from last year, 2020
You can see that there and this was my tweet to BBC news because I was on BBC News a year ago
There I am putting on a face mask that I built myself so I tweeted them:
“Brilliant piece thank you especially that guy with the ears great stuff”
So all my tweets seem to be here but if you want to protect your tweets I don't recommend
deleting your tweets while the archive is being prepared.
Wait till you've downloaded the whole file and then start your deleting frenzy.
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