Its not a big deal when you might be noticing something fishy with twitter . Sometimes you are shown with 0 followers , sometimes your status could not be updated , again all your tweets may be invisible or you are appeared with no longer active account .Day by day hackers are searching out new bugs and using it to the fully extent :roll:
BackUp you twitter before its Dead
If Twitter is your life then surely you would never ever think of something tragic to happen . No one would be happy to see that somebody have hacked your account and all your tweets, followers, some good lists you were listed in were gone all of a sudden !
That’s why it’s a best to always backup your Twitter archive on a regular basis in case of any Twitter or hacking calamity . And yes , twitter do not have any backup solution but there are many number of good tools and applications to backup your
- Followers
- Friends
- Favorites
- Your Tweets
- Direct Messages
Option to backup lists is not there for now but i am sure many developers are coming up with that one though .
Here is the complete list :
TweetBackup
Features :
- Runs Over The Internet
- No Installation Required
- Login via Twitter
Most popular tool and works smoothly .
Tweetake
Features :
Backup any or all of your Twitter Profile
- Followers
- Friends
- Favorites
- Tweets
- Direct Messages
It rocks because it has more features than any other tool to download any one or all choices at once . Again very popular tool .
BackupMyTweets
Features:
This tool offers you to download all your tweets on a web page in HTML , XML or JSON format . More formats !
Twapper Keeper
Features :
Whats unique with this service is that you can back up any Twitter user’s public tweets by just entering its username . You can also sort the results by date or the number of tweets at the time of download .
Also it is possible to download all tweets by selecting any hashtags / keywords. Can be very useful for understanding trends and promotions 
TweetSCAN
Features :
Claims to be the most complete Twitter Backup available.
Here your last 1000 messages are downloaded from Twitter and combined with results from historical database. This service keeps on retaining your tweets to improve later backups. It can too download #Replies which other tools cannot support !
Completely easy to Search and read offline using only your web browser and can be later on downloaded
TweetBook
Features :
Just as the name suggests , you get a complete ebook about your tweets roasted according to date . Even you can download in xml type of format .
Excellent tool and you can have your own ebook of your own tweets ! Even you can sell it if you are popular in twitter-ville with huge number of followers 
Some more applications :
Friendbackup
A Java Application .Select what you had like to backup – following, followers, DMs, tweets, favorites . More information here .
Johanns App
Another java tool that downloads all your tweets and stores them in XML format. Need to download it ! More information here .
Google Reader
With subscription of any Twitter RSS Feed with Google Reader , you can easily search tweets accordingly and get them backed-up automatically .
Any more tools or softwares i missed ? Feel free to share them 
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Thanks for sharing.Great list and most suitable for power users.
Hello bro this is my first visit to your site…..nd i just love it…:)
nywaz..nice list….one should always backup there tweet.
Thanks for sharing……..
Glad you like it dude , yeah one should backup their social profiles like twitter , facebook etc
will write on facebook and other media next time
Downloading all the tweets and do what lol.. Kiddin. Hope it helps others..
I didn’t even know that there are tools to back up our tweets, followers etc etc. Thanks a lot for sharing this information. This will surely come handy to many Twitter users.
wow you listed all service in one place.. do you know any services to backup list?
I have googled a lot but i dont think we can backup lists
But i am waiting for this feature
Whats the point of backing up your Tweets. Do you think Twitter will crash some day?
All tweets stored on Twitter tweeted in about 10 days are available for search, and it’s hard to track the old tweets .
And most of the times , twitter fail whale shows up ! And if you are going to review your old tweets then there’s no point but to wait for twitter to come back to life
In such case , when you have backup of all tweets , it becomes easy
Now I am clear
Will try any of this tool to get me a backup. And thanks for sharing the list.
You listed most out of clients to back up our tweets,Great list mate:)..
Great tools to take Twitter back ups.
will try these.
I’m glad that at least we can make use of this backup support to avoid losing even our contacts in Twitter. I also like the archiving of Tweets by means of ebook. At least you’ll be ab le to keep track of your discussion even offline.
Very nice post, thank’s for sharing. I will be back. Twapperkeeper seems very nice.
I think that Twitter has become the phenomena that blogging and social networking were a few years ago. The internet keeps surprising you
with a new technology just as you think it has nothing new to offer.
Thanks for the info. I have over 25,000 tweets and twitter thinks they are theirs. Uh..no. I’d like to protect that and you’ve given me some good leads.
Will try this now .
i am using twitter a lot .
@Fleece: Yes, is true, Twitter is the new phenomena, at least for now
Who knows what will be hot next year..
Have you ever tried to backup your Direct Messages? So far using the different mentioned options for backuping your twitter account never made a backup of my DM’s. And that’s what I want to achieve.
Yup i had tried backing up direct messages via Tweetake .
Its just lists , i want to find out .
One way or another I didn’t try Tweetake. This works for all incoming DM’s. So that’s great. But it doesn’t give the DM’s you have send yourself.
Yesh , just the one’s we have received . Might be due to twitter api
I usually tweet and very rarely send direct messages in case of privacy otherwise its all public
Wish twitter corporate this method too !
Do you know if there’s a software that’ll back-up all of your tweets and allow you to re-run all of them: schedule them to be tweeted again?
Yes , there are many of them . However all of them are commercial , they don’t even have trial version .
They claim to include every bit of hacks but i haven’t tried any of them , will check them out and publsih new post regarding this issue
I heard first time that we can take backup of twitter. Cool !
You have share very useful list of twitter backup tool.
Hi Ajinkya, I’m really glad I saw this post. Thanks for all your hard work to pull this together and test the features. You’re a power user – so I’m following you asap!
Thanks a lot for your comment Ileane !
Appreciated
This is really important post for those who are tweeting useful information every day.
Very nice list. Every one should backup their tweets. I never knew about the tools. Thanks for sharing.
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I think updates on google reader is one of the best option…