Are your tweets precious to you? If so, you might be interested in backing up all of your tweets using a Twitter Backup Service. Something which could prove valuable one day if for some reason your account is suspended or hacked.

In this post I will look at 3 services which will help you back your tweets up. I hope you find them useful

Twitter Backup

A good script from Johann Burkard, Twitter Backup is a downloadable tool which backups all of your tweets in XML format.

Link : Backup Twitter Tweets with TwitterBackup

Tweetake

Tweetake lets you backup your Followers, Friends, Favourites, Tweets, Direct Messages or everything. All you need to do is enter your Twitter username and password and then hit the ‘Get Em’ button.

You may take a little time to download, depending on how active you are on Twitter. I have just under 1,000 tweets and it took a minute or so before it let me choose the download location. The file was 1.3mb in size and was in CSV format so you can view the data easily on a spreadsheet application like Exel.

Link : Tweetake

TweetBackup

TweetBackup is an online service which doesn’t require you to download or install any files. It downloads backups for your account daily. You can export posts in RSS, Text and HTML format but unlike Tweetake, you cannot export friends or follower lists.

The only requirement they have is that you need to follow @tweetbackup. If you don’t your account will be deleted (their words, not mine!).

Link : TweetBackup

Overview

I’m not sure how necessary it is to back up your tweets but if Twitter is important to your business it might be prudent to backup occasionally. I thought Tweetake was the most pracitcal as it lets you download tweets, friends, followers, messages and more. With it’s daily online backups, TweetBackup is probably the easiest to use.

Another service I came across was TwitterSafe though it’s been down for maintenence for a week or so now (I will review it once it goes live).

Which backup service do you prefer?

Kevin

Google Alerts is a very useful site which a lot of webmasters use to track references to their websites, products or themselves. TweetBeep is the Twitter equivalent.

It emails you with hourly or daily updates with any reference to a specific keyword you are tracking. You can make your keyword alert as general or as specific as you want. You can choose whether a specific person references a keyword, whether there is a link included and even exclude alerts if a certain keyword is included in the tweet.

It’s a great service for tracking a product or website you are running and one which I’m sure a lot of you will find useful

Link : TweetBeep