Centauri's Thoughts

Apparently, there is a special kind of twitter hiccup that happens on occasion (as it did today) and people lose 1,000s of followings (friends) (it acts like a person just stopped following other people).

This happened today to at least 2 people that I know, and I dont follow very many (yet).

Due to the nice API set out there, it looks like someone has already thought about this, and there is a way to back up your followers and those you follow.

You can also back up your favorites, direct messages, etc., but I imagine the biggest thing is the followers and friends (as it is called on tweetake)

Here is an excerpt from the about page:

Why bother to do this? Many reasons:

• Twitter may lose followers again like it did in June / July
• You may change your Twitter name and want to re-follow the people you were following, and contact the people who were following you
• You may want to refer to an older Tweet - currently Twitter does not keep all of your older Tweets
• You may just like backing things up, ‘just in case’, like us

It creates a CSV file suitable for saving in many types of spreadsheets (or text software if you have the patience to read comma separated values that way