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Script to backup your friends timeline

Install how-to:

1. Download twitter-backup.pl in ~/path/
2. cd ~/path/
3. mkdir backup
4. echo 1 > backup/lastid
5. chmod +x twitter-backup.pl
6. Launch ./twitter-backup.pl
   and follow instructions for uncommenting OAuth section and adding your TOKEN and SECRET
7. Ignore warnings at first launch
8. Edit your crontab. For example:
   @hourly perl ~/path/backup-tweets.pl >> ~/.backup-tweets.log
9. logrotate backup/twitter-current. For example:
   @monthly mv ~/path/backup/twitter-current ~/path/backup/twitter-$(date "+%Y-%m-%d")
10. logrotate output (~/.backup-tweets.log in example above)
11. Tweet "Hey, I use http://github.com/gcolpart/twitter-backup for backing up my tweets."

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