The pace of social media has become so rapid that a tweet could get lost in mere seconds. While real-time data has become increasingly important for businesses to keep up with trends and provide accurate reports, your company's history is still relevant — the tweets you sent six months to a year ago could provide important insights. You want to save that data, don't you?
If you're churning out dozens of messages per day on social media, old tweets and posts on Facebook can quickly fall into the abyss. We know the Library of Congress archives tweets, but what about the average small business owner?
We've rounded up six ways to rescue your social data from the Internet's point of no return. Here is how you can rescue your content.
Google offers a built-in archive service for many of its applications, such as Google+, Google Docs, Contacts or Google Voice.
If you're a heavy Google user, it can take a bit of time to download, however it does let you pick and choose which services you want to archive.
Facebook also has a built-in program that lets you download a copy of your data, and then sends it to you in an email.
Unfortunately, there is no way to filter through which data you would like to download, so it comes as one big package. Comments you've made on other people's posts are not included in this archive.
Ifttt.com is a multifaceted site that allows you to set up specific tasks, following the algorithm "If this, then that."
For example, you can set it up so that your tweets are sent to Evernote or Google Calendar. There are a number of different social networks and web tools you can choose from.
Whether you're looking for a personal weekly digest or managing several corporate accounts, Backupify has several plans of different monetary amounts to suit your social media archive needs.
The service can also back up your Gmail and Google Apps.
Tweet Library is an app that lets you archive and filter through tweets on your iOS device. You can also archive your timeline, a specific hashtag or follower, and select tweets.
According to Manton Reece of Riverfold Software, there is a bug in the current version that can prevent the exported CSV file from being saved, but the "Send via Mail" feature and it will attach a CSV file of the tweets as well to the email. (The export will be fixed in version 2.0.2.)
This free service is a part of BackupMyNet, which can also back up your mail, blog, and online photos.
This is good if you're looking for a basic archive to export to another format. It's also surprisingly quick to update.
Tweetguard, also free, can archive and export your tweets, as well as the tweets you favorite and a list of your friends.
The service is a little more asthetically pleasing and user friendly, however if you're a heavy tweeter, it takes a bit of time to load the archive.
Google offers a built-in archive service for many of its applications, such as Google+, Google Docs, Contacts or Google Voice.
If you're a heavy Google user, it can take a bit of time to download, however it does let you pick and choose which services you want to archive.
Facebook also has a built-in program that lets you download a copy of your data, and then sends it to you in an email.
Unfortunately, there is no way to filter through which data you would like to download, so it comes as one big package. Comments you've made on other people's posts are not included in this archive.
Ifttt.com is a multifaceted site that allows you to set up specific tasks, following the algorithm "If this, then that."
For example, you can set it up so that your tweets are sent to Evernote or Google Calendar. There are a number of different social networks and web tools you can choose from.
Whether you're looking for a personal weekly digest or managing several corporate accounts, Backupify has several plans of different monetary amounts to suit your social media archive needs.
The service can also back up your Gmail and Google Apps.
Tweet Library is an app that lets you archive and filter through tweets on your iOS device. You can also archive your timeline, a specific hashtag or follower, and select tweets.
According to Manton Reece of Riverfold Software, there is a bug in the current version that can prevent the exported CSV file from being saved, but the "Send via Mail" feature and it will attach a CSV file of the tweets as well to the email. (The export will be fixed in version 2.0.2.)
This free service is a part of BackupMyNet, which can also back up your mail, blog, and online photos.
This is good if you're looking for a basic archive to export to another format. It's also surprisingly quick to update.
Tweetguard, also free, can archive and export your tweets, as well as the tweets you favorite and a list of your friends.
The service is a little more asthetically pleasing and user friendly, however if you're a heavy tweeter, it takes a bit of time to load the archive.
Editor's Note: Special thanks to Laura @Pistachio Fitton of HubSpot all-in-one marketing software
Image courtesy of Flickr, vpickering
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