I just mentioned in the previous paragraph how to request/download your Twitter archive and you can recognize if you have the right file.īut please keep in mind, that for MacOS user there is probably an additional step to take care about: What to import at TweetEraser?ĭefinitely and only your Twitter archive file, the original one you got downloaded from Twitter. The average size is somewhere between 10 to 20 MB. It depends on the amount of your tweets, but is shouldn’t be much bigger than let’s say 60 MB.
#TWITTER ARCHIVE ZIP#
It starts with your Twitter account ID, followed by an under score and closed by a long hash containing random numbers and letters. Likewise the data file, this one is a ZIP compressed file, but usually way smaller. You’ll get an email from Twitter containing the download link to your archive. Your Twitter archive file name looks similar to this example: 1749694760_d11e652e95165e841e37db0829b074d9dd2020da.zip There should be a button for requesting your archive. Sign into your Twitter account and go to, scroll down to the end. The information there are similar to this: Usually this file has a bigger size (could have around 1GB or more) than your archive file, because it contains all your media data you ever sent within a tweet.įor requesting your Twitter archive file please follow the instruction of how to request your Twitter archive ZIP here.
Likewise the archive file, this one is a ZIP compressed file. It starts with “twitter”, followed by the date of request “”, separated by hyphen “-” and closed by a long hash containing random numbers and letters. Once you request your data file from Twitter the file name looks similar to this example: twitter-8f23bb315de669a9f6ccbbe51dfc09027eb6fb163eb9af02e72298935fe659cb.zip The basic difference are the file name and the file size. How to identify difference between archive and data file? Data file 3200 tweets via their API, but only if they are not older than about 12 months. The reason for this is, that Twitter unfortunately only allows to download your most recent max. Simply because if you want to delete even old tweets – let’s say from 4 years ago – you need to import your Twitter archive file first. The misleading point here is the head line, because what you are requesting here is your Twitter data file but NOT your Twitter archive file.
#TWITTER ARCHIVE ZIP FILE#
Twitter will, eventually, email you a big zip file containing your entire archive of tweets to the email address it has on file for you. Scroll to the bottom and press the “Request data” button next to your Twitter and/or Periscope archives. I’ve never looked at mine, but it makes me feel better knowing it’s there. Download your archiveīefore erasing your tweets, you can save a copy of everything you’ve ever tweeted - should you want a record before it’s all gone. Next to other information the following is written there: 2. Since a while there are some misleading information on-line (by Washington Post among others) about Twitter archive vs.
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