How to Download Tweets of a Deceased Person | memorial

Twitter does not provide functionality to memorialize a deceased person’s account; find out how to download publications in this case

It is not easy to deal with the profile of a deceased person on social networks. While some platforms offer the option to convert the account into a memorial, the Twitter it only lets you download the tweets and save them as a text file before the account is removed.

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However, this process is a bit complicated: you need to have access to the person’s account and request a download of the data. Without the login and password information, you have to fill out a Twitter form with the person’s death certificate and ask company support for help. Otherwise, the social network may delete inactive accounts.

How to contact Twitter about the deceased person

The social network recommends close family members fill out the form and then requests documents, such as a copy of their identity and the death certificate of the deceased person.

1. Visit the Twitter support page at help.twitter.com;
2. Select the option “Account owner deceased”;
3. Provide the account owner relationship, email address, username, and full name of the person;
4. Click “Submit”.

After submission, Twitter contacts the registered email and asks for additional information to check for false reports. After the process is complete, the network support team offers a way to deactivate your account, but does not include any option to recover your posts.

How to download tweets from deceased people

Twitter does not provide login credentials to another person. However, if you have a login and password, you can enter your profile and request the download of all data.

To do this, follow these steps on your computer or mobile phone;

1. Access the side menu;
2. Click on “Settings and Privacy”;
3. Select the “Your Account” tab;
4. Click on “Download a file with your data”;
5. Enter your password again and verify your profile;
6. Click “Request File”.

When the file is ready, Twitter notifies you to download it. This includes posts, interests, ad data, activity history and other information.

As of 2023, Twitter has changed some terms of service related to inactive accounts. According to the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, accounts with no activity “for many years” are removed from the platform and this can include profiles of deceased people.

Since there is no function to store the profile, the option is to log in sporadically to avoid deletion, if you have the password.

How to download tweets without logging into your account

Here the work is more difficult, especially if the person used a private account. In public profiles it is possible to take prints and extract some publications, but the changes to the API have disabled many platforms aimed at this.

You can use the Thread Reader App to save Twitter threads, i.e. postings made in sequence. The tool collects all the tweets and compiles them into a single text, with the possibility of saving it in PDF for subscribers of the premium service.

1. Login threadreaderapp.com/;
2. Paste the link to any tweet into the thread and click “Find Unroll”;
3. Connect your Twitter account;
4. Get the text.

it is also possible make the account private to avoid exposure.

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