It is inevitable that users back up their data if the websites go dark. Here is a detailed description on how uses can backup social media data on a regular basis. The article talks about some of the common tools and methods with which users can backup data in different social media channels like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Backing up user’s Twitter Account
Backupify is one of the best tools that can be used to back up a user’s Twitter account
The service is available for free for the users who just have to back up a maximum of three social media accounts
Additional accounts as well as Google Apps can be added by means of a minimal subscription fees
The service is capable of getting the information regarding the Timeline
It is also possible for the service to capture the tweets, followers, friends as well as mentions in Twitter
The service is quite user-friendly since it will just take the user a quick sign-up as well as a few mouse clicks
Backing up Facebook account
Go to General Account Settings
Users will then have to select the option to download a copy of data in Facebook profile
Go to the next Page
Then click on the ‘Start My Archive’ tab that is represented in Green color
Facebook will send an e-mail to the address that represents the user’s account notifications
The e-mail will be comprised of the posts, photos as well as videos etc
How to backup LinkedIn data
Log in to LinkedIn.com
Go to the tab that denotes ‘Profile’
Users will then have to click ‘View Profile’
Navigate towards the bottom of the profile page, users will have to click on the tab that represents ‘PDF’
Users will then have to choose the location in the user’s computer
Then users will have to go back to the main page
In the navigation bar, click on ‘Contacts’
In contacts, users will have to select ‘Connections’
Then the users will have to select the Export Connections link
Users will now be encountered by a pop-up window which is the ‘Save As’ window and the users will then have to click on the specified file format that you wish to save the file
Select the destination on the user’s Hard Drive and finally click Enter
Backing up of the LinkedIn account has been successfully done
This is how users can back up their social media profile data.
