I'm going to delete my Twitter. As a first step, I logged in and requested my data. Go to twitter.com/settings/download_ and click on the `Request Data` button. You will get an email when the data is available.

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@thomzane So, what's in the Datapackage you received. Apart from your tweets, the people you followed and basic settings? Any aggregated data, analytics or similar stuff?

@elshid The format is a website that you can view offline. 85MB uncompressed. Without JavaScript, the page is blank. Not sure if I want to run a bunch of JavaScript from Twitter on my machine.

@elshid From ./data/README.txt:

Also note that the HTML renderer only includes a subset of the data included in the archive. To see all the data included in the archive, please navigate the JSON files located in the “data” folder.

The data folder consists of machine-readable JSON files with a .js extension containing information associated with this account. We’ve included the information we believe is most relevant and useful, including profile information, Tweets, ... (To be continued...)

@elshid From ./data/README.txt:

(Continued from last toot...), Direct Messages, Moments, images, videos and GIFs attached to Tweets, Direct Messages or Moments, followers, following, address book, Lists created, a member of, or subscribed to, interest and demographic information that we have inferred, information about ads seen or engaged with on Twitter, and more.

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