Twitter lets you 'download an archive of your data'. Here's how long Twitter takes to prepare the data export (and what's in it).
Twitter is a social networking site, or 'micro-blogging' tool to use a term that seems to have fallen out of favour. It has 126 million daily users (according to figures from February 2019), around 10% the level that Facebook enjoys. Nonetheless it is an important part of the social media ecosystem and seems particularly beloeved by journalists and anyone else who chooses to, or can only, express their thoughts in a limited number of characters. Which reminds me, follow Technically Product on Twitter @technicallyprod
Twitter lets you 'download an archive of your data'. Here's how long Twitter takes to prepare the data export (and what's in it).
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As soon as you adopt a hashtag, you lose control over its usage. Not just over who uses it, but how - including the case they put it in.
If you manage a Twitter account for a brand, you will know there are accounts you just have to follow. But that doesn't necessarily mean you want to see their tweets...
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