Back up Your Twitter/Facebook/last.fm account

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In today’s day and age we live out a large part of our lives in the virtual world; sharing photos; updates; thoughts; journal entries, even important moments and events with friends and family, All kind of this precious data sits on servers spread across halfway across the globe and we’re quite comfortable with that. After all, technology giants such as Google, Facebook and others who are curators of your personal memorabilia surely have safety measures in place if a copy of it all was available on your own system? By doing this, blackouts, outages and downright loss of data wouldn't affect you so severely.

» Back up Facebook

Facebook allows you to backup all your data without using any third-party apps. To do this, click on drop-down menu next to your name in the name in the top-right corner. Go to account settings and you’ll find a link which says “Download a copy of your Facebook data”. Once you click on it, Facebook will tell you what the backup will contain. It includes your photos, wall posts messages, chats etc. Click on “Start My Archive” to begin process. You’ll receive an email when your archive is ready for download. The archive contains an HTML version of your account which you can store locally. Ensure that you save this data carefully.

» Back up your Twitter account

Twitter is sneaky little bird. While you’re happily tweeting away your pearls of wisdom on the micro-blogging site, Twitter is busy deleting your old tweets. Yes, only 3,200 of your most recent tweets are only online. Imagine all those dear diary style rambling, those witty innuendos, those wisecracks all gone! The horror! Fear not, there are several services (though twitter recently provided a way) such as http://backupmytweets.com/ and htttp://tweetbackup.com/ which will help you preserve all that you hold on Twitter. TweetBackup requires you to sign up using Twitter and an email address. Oauth will authorise the app and you’ll be on your way. Go to the export tab on the web UI and you can export your tweets as plain text or HTML. BackUpMyTweets also works in a similar way except that you need to post an obligatory tweet about the service.

» Back up last.fm plays

Last.fm is a social networking service that lets you connect with people with similar tastes in music. To build your taste in music it uploads (scrobbles) information about every track that you play. In turn, over time it builds up a huge database of all tracks that you’ve ever played. But as always, outages are common and who knows, data might disappear or last.fm might decide to stop storing scrobbles beyond a point. To back up your last.fm data, go to your profile and click on RSS feed button in your recently played tracks. Next go to http://www.feedmyinbox.com and paste the RSS url in the box. Click submit > verify your email and soon your last.fm feed will start tricking in your inbox. Apply a filter and archive under a label. If you’re comfortable using scripts head over to http://bitly.com/lastbup for detailed instructions on exporting and restoring your scrobbles.

» Backupify everything

www.backupify.com is great tool to back up multiple social media accounts with ease. Besides regular network such as Facebook and Twitter, it allows you to back up LinkedIn, Flicker and a host of other Google services. The free account in its Social Media package allows you to backup up to three accounts. Head over to the website. Select the account you wish to back up, authorise it and voila you’re done. As simple as that…

Peace!