

This hides the original URL you shared and redirects all traffic over Twitter’s servers. But even more dangerous: your links are all still t.co links. For one, you can’t easily copy your Tweets somewhere else, for example, into your website because they are stored in a complex JSON structure. This is nice, but it also has a few flaws. Once your archive is on your machine, you will have a browsable HTML archive of your tweets, direct messages, and moments including media like images, videos, and GIFs. I suppose it might take a little longer at the moment because more people might request their data. I requested my archive on the day Elon walked in and got an email notice that my archive is ready for download after about a day. After you have requested your archive, it can take a while until you receive it. So it is time to request and download an archive of your Twitter data now, if you haven’t done this recently.
