{"id":643,"date":"2009-10-04T09:13:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T17:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2009-10-04T09:17:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T17:17:45","slug":"social-media-backup-what-are-the-options-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/04\/social-media-backup-what-are-the-options-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Backup &#8211; What are the options now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad things happen:<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #000; padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\">\nDear Twitter,<\/p>\n<p>My Twitter page <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mostlylisa\">@mostlylisa<\/a> has been hacked and deleted. It&#8217;s GONE!!! I am currently catatonic. Please help me restore my account, it&#8217;s like, my meaning in life.<\/p>\n<p>Much love to whom ever helps me!<\/p>\n<p>PS. If you miss me like I miss you, you can always be my Friend OR Fan on Facebook. I know it&#8217;s not the same, but it&#8217;s all I have now. *hold me*\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It only took twitter about 3 days to recover from this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/djsteen\/statuses\/4599867733\" border=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/djsteen.png\" alt=\"djsteen\" title=\"djsteen\" width=\"534\" height=\"166\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/djsteen.png 534w, https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/djsteen-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is there a faster way?<\/p>\n<p>First let&#8217;s look at the current options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tweetbackup.com\/\">TweetBackup<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/external\/gigaom\/2009\/08\/06\/06gigaom-back-up-your-social-media-profiles-69520.html\">NY Times<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/backupmytweets.com\/\">BackUpMyTweets<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you are popular enough and folks raise a raucous, Twitter will go into the database back-up and restore your account into its pristine set up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BackupMyTweets required too much info to get it working. No, you cannot have my gmail password.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried Tweetbackup and they get kudos for using <a href=\"http:\/\/oauth.net\/\">OAuth<\/a> to make it easy to back your tweets up.<\/p>\n<p>The 3rd option, begging Twitter, simply can&#8217;t scale and will only work for those few elites close to Twitter or popular enough. There isn&#8217;t a consumer solution.<\/p>\n<p>How do we solve the problem of social media backup?<\/p>\n<p>The great thing is the problem is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>technical<\/li>\n<li>can have the same business model as insurance<\/li>\n<li>will gain recognition as more snafus happen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once again, if you haven&#8217;t already, use <a href=\"http:\/\/backupmytweets.com\/\">BackUpMyTweets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad things happen: Dear Twitter, My Twitter page @mostlylisa has been hacked and deleted. It&#8217;s GONE!!! I am currently catatonic. Please help me restore my account, it&#8217;s like, my meaning in life. Much love to whom ever helps me! PS. If you miss me like I miss you, you can always be my Friend OR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","category-techbiz","category-webapps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}