

Unless you're a very heavy Twitter user posting a lot of photos and videos, it shouldn't take too long. Twitter's data download button is at the bottom of the general settings page. You'll get an email alert when it's ready. Twitter's data download button is easy to find - it's at the bottom of the website's main account settings page. For example, location data is in a format called JSON, which can be imported into a mapping program but isn't easily parsed by non-tech-savvy users. The data arrives in a variety of file formats, some of which are not easy to read. I've been using Google since the search engine launched. My archive came in 14 different ZIP files, each about 2 gigabytes. Chronicle screenshotĪnd when it comes, you may have many archive files to download. If you have a lot of data, it could literally take days for your download link to show up. If you have been a longtime and/or heavy Google user, expect the archiving process to take a while - in fact, Google warns you it may take days.Īfter you select what Google services you want to include in your data download, you'll end up here. When the archive is ready, you'll receive an email with a link or links to the files. All 35 products are included by default, you can deselect any you don't actually use, or don't want the data from. You can turn off any you don't want to receive. These are just some of the Google products that will supply you with data in your download. It lets you download data from a whopping 35 Google products, including YouTube, Gmail, Chrome, Calendar, Blogger, Location History and more. Google's data download was originally called Google Takeout, though that clever name seems to have been dropped. Want to see what these networks have on you? Here's a guide to downloading your data from them.


So do many of the major online services, including Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Snapchat. As I wrote last week, Facebook has a data-download feature. Facelift: Facebook reworking its privacy settingsĪnd many give you the opportunity to download and view it.
