This Python script creates a git repo with your tweets. Obviously its limited by Twitter API limitations as you cannot retrieve more than 3200 tweets at a time.
Given the fact that Twitter doesn't give a fuck about our data, you may not find your old tweets ever again. So nothing is better than keeping an archive of tweets as a Git repo.
This is inspired by @holman's tweets repo. But this doesn't have a dependency on Madrox. Just plain Python and Git.
To create an archive of tweets initiate a git repo in a directory with git init
. Then put the script in the directory and execute: