Feature request: Tweet backups to Git/GitHub

Here is a feature that would help to make the most of the amazing knowledge that is daily shared on twitter.

The idea is to have tweet data stored in a git repository which would contain:

• Tweets (all available info for each tweet, which is a LOT more than what is currently exposed on the multiple tweet client apps)
• Followers
• Following
• Connects (when others reference the account)

Ideally there should be a commit for each item , but a daily commit should also work.


This would also allow for offline analysis of tweet data and to have strong non-repudiation (since each tweet stored would be connected into each other)

A quick google search didn't reveal a good solution for it:



btw: this nodeJs solution looks interesting

Meanwhile, while looking at those google results via the shutdown of http://backupmytweets.com/,  I found that you can now backup your tweets :



You can request it on the https://twitter.com/settings/account page



which when clicked shows:



Let’s see what happens next (and what type of data we will get from this twitter backup)

Update: see What do the Twitter backups downloadable files look like post