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I like to download [[https://twitter.com/n0v0id][my Twitter]] archive from time to time and generate
Org-mode files in order to get my tweets into my calendar.

You can do this either [[https://github.com/novoid/Memacs/blob/master/docs/memacs_twitter.org][via Memacs]] which requires to give Twitter your
personal phone number.

#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/flowolf">@flowolf</a> Looks great. Won&#39;t be used by me because I don&#39;t want to give <a href="https://twitter.com/Twitter">@Twitter</a> my phone number: <a href="https://t.co/DBXrBcYhmg">https://t.co/DBXrBcYhmg</a></p>&mdash; Karl Voit (@n0v0id) <a href="https://twitter.com/n0v0id/status/672437120108244994">December 3, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
#+END_EXPORT

Instead, I wrote a short Python script to convert [[https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170160#][the Twitter archive
download]] into an Org-mode file: [[https://github.com/novoid/twitter-json_to_orgmode][twitter-json_to_orgmode]].

A couple years ago, this stopped working. When I requested the
archive, I never got the email containing the download URL. Twitter
support did not react and I could not find peers who had the same
issue.

Then mika gave a very good hint:

#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Change your mail address (and optionally change it back), should work then since it triggers validating your mail address</p>&mdash; mika (@mikagrml) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikagrml/status/863809773841547266">May 14, 2017</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
#+END_EXPORT

So I changed my email address and now the emails containing the
download URL of my data export works again.