Backup your Twitter friends
25 July, 2008
The recent "Fail Whale" occurrence spawned several responses in the blogosphere. Some complained, some took it as a Spring cleaning of sorts, while others advocated a tactic to avoid the Twitter relationship silo and cross-pollinate your friends. I’m adding one more way of coping to the list, programmatic backup of friends.
Because I feel generally sketchy about giving out my Twitter password to a random website, I’ll rolling this as a client application. Your password is as secure as your machine is, nothing is coming back to me at all.
Yeah, it looks rough but it’s something I finished in an hour so deal with it. It grabs the real name, user name, and url for each of the folks you’re following1. The output is a csv file that can be read in Microsoft Excel, Access or OpenOffice. If there’s interest, I might extend it to other services.
You need Java 6 to run it.
Twitter does have a cap of 70 authenticated requests per hour. For most folks, the additional requests won’t make them max out. Those who are friends with enough people to populate a small town(greater than 6,900* friends) are going to have problems. You were duly warned.
1 additional info is available but there is a fine line between getting what’s useful and duplicating their db. If you need more, @ecspike me and we can sort something out.
* 100 friends/request * 70 reqs - 1 authenticating request = 6,900<
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