Tweet Backup Script - Based on: http://blog.jphpsf.com/2012/05/07/backing-up-your-twitter-account-with-t/

backup.sh

#!/usr/bin/env sh
# A twitter backup script.

function line_count {
	echo `cat $1 | wc -l | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//'`
}

# Setup
mkdir -p `pwd`/archives

DAY=`date +'%Y-%m-%d'`
USERNAME='@xoebus'

echo "Backing up timeline..."
t timeline $USERNAME --csv --number 3000 > tweets-$DAY.csv

echo "Backing up retweets..."
t retweets --csv --number 3000 > retweets-$DAY.csv

echo "Backing up favourites..."
t favorites --csv --number 3000 > favorites-$DAY.csv

echo "Backing up received DMs..."
t direct_messages --csv --number 3000 > dm_received-$DAY.csv

echo "Backing up sent DMs..."
t direct_messages_sent --csv --number 3000 > dm_sent-$DAY.csv

echo "Backing up followings..."
t followings --csv > followings-$DAY.csv

echo "\nBacked up the following:"
echo " -" $(line_count tweets-$DAY.csv) "tweets"
echo " -" $(line_count retweets-$DAY.csv) "retweets"
echo " -" $(line_count favorites-$DAY.csv) "favorites"
echo " -" $(line_count dm_received-$DAY.csv) "DM received"
echo " -" $(line_count dm_sent-$DAY.csv) "DM sent"
echo " -" $(line_count followings-$DAY.csv) "followings"

echo "\nArchiving..."
tar -czf archive-$DAY.tar.gz *.csv
mv archive-$DAY.tar.gz archives

echo "Cleaning up..."
rm *.csv