This morning I saw the email I received from Twitter last night and it made my blood freeze instantaneously.

“Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter, your password was reset. Please create a new password by opening this link in your browser….”

It was followed by bunch of “check this” and “make sure this” and even though it was pretty cool from Twitter that they sent this email with helpful instructions, the whole idea of waking up one morning and my Twitter account along with my Twitter friends and my tweets being gone, makes me nervous enough to do something about it.

What was also interesting was that few days ago I ran across the article about making a Twitter backup. Never really ran across anything like that before, so made a note of it but never went back to it. This morning, I was digging through my paperwork looking for the link..lol..

Anyhow, I’ve been reading up on it, and here are few things you should definitely know about preserving your precious Twitter real estate”

1) Online Twitter Backup:

1) http://tweetbackup.com/

Can I restore my posts or friends?

Not at the moment. But, you can export all of your posts.

Due to a Twitter bug only 3200 posts archived. Please notice that this limit only affects older posts.

All your posts and a list with your friends are included in the backup

Jonas Lejon. He is a Web 2.0 entrepreneur from Sweden is behind this service

2) http://tweetake.com/

You can customize which “part” of Twitter you want to back up

export in .cvs format

no sign up

3) http://backupmytweets.com/

They back up your tweets as soon as you sign up and then check every day for new ones. They also offer a Suite version for back of your blog, tweetpic, and web based mail.

backupmytweets.com offers two options:

Option 1

“That’s it. One (and only one!) tweet, and we’ll give you a free year of service. We’ll even automatically tweet for you – just select some text and click the button. There is no further obligation.”

Option 2

For $9.95/year, we will backup your tweets – up to a gigabyte’s worth. (that’s about 1,000,000 tweets!)

2) Sign up to your own RSS feed in Twitter:

When you subscribe to your own RSS Twitter feed, your tweets, from past, present, future will be forwarded to your reader where you can archive them.

Do you know of any other good ways to back up Twitter?

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