---
title: Twitter Archive
date: 2013-02-25 08:54:52
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2013/02/25/twitter-archive/
author: Lester Chan
excerpt: "Three years ago, I blogged about getting your first tweet if you have more than 3,200. Those instructions relied on the Internet Archive, which isn't always available. Happily, Twitter now lets most users download their Twitter Archive directly."
categories:
  - Blog
tags:
  - archive
  - tweet
  - Twitter
---

3 years ago, I blogged about [How To Get Your First Tweet If You Have More Than 3,200 Tweets?](https://lesterchan.net/blog/2009/11/12/how-to-get-your-first-tweet-if-you-have-more-than-3200-tweets/) which has accumulated about 55k views. The instructions uses [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/) which may or may not be available for some users.

But I am glad that Twitter has been rolling out the [ability to download your Twitter Archive](https://blog.x.com/official/en_us/a/2012/your-twitter-archive.html) to most users already. That option can be found in “Twitter.com -> Settings -> Your Twitter Archive”.

[![Twitter Archive Button](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8098/8484530190_a5fd8a2893_o.png)](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8098/8484530190_a5fd8a2893_o.png "Twitter Archive Button")

After clicking on the “Request your archive” button, you will get an email within minutes (mine took about 1 minute) with the link to download your Twitter Archive.

[![Your Twitter Archive Is Ready](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8107/8483458905_aef7897366_o.png)](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8107/8483458905_aef7897366_o.png "Your Twitter Archive Is Ready")

Clicking on the link will bring you to Twitter.com and click on “Download” to download your Twitter Archive.

[![Download Twitter Archive](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8243/8483466643_e16629e1a0_c.jpg)](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8243/8483466643_069bbe9fb8_o.png "Download Twitter Archive")

I have about 24k tweets and the tweets.zip file is about 4.4MB. Inside the zip contains the tweets.csv file which contains all your tweets and an index.html file which loads your Twitter Archive in a nice webpage.

[![Inside tweets.zip](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8506/8483478869_c40e58994d_c.jpg)](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8506/8483478869_2980194886_o.png "Inside tweets.zip")

[![tweets.csv](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8097/8484583332_0fb417843f_c.jpg)](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8097/8484583332_1fcb049d75_o.png "tweets.csv")

[![My First Tweet](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8515/8483478847_e42603e6ea_c.jpg)](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8515/8483478847_d2df7bd7a7_o.png "My First Tweet")