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"As an experiment I downloaded my entire archive"

I've wanted to do this, but in order to do it, you need to verify your email address with Twitter. Whenever I request the verification email nothing is sent or delivered. (Checked spam and everything). Twitter's support hasn't responded to my inquires, so I'm basically stuck. Anyone happen to have a solution for this?

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Use a different email address?

You mean change the one associated with my account? Good idea. I'll give that a shot. Hopefully won't lock me out completely.

If you haven't already tried it, I did. This seems to work:

- Created email #1 at https://www.guerrillamail.com

- Created test Twitter account using email #1, including receiving email confirmation request

- Created email #2 at https://temp-mail.org/en/

- Without confirming email #1, changed test Twitter account email to email #2

- Received email confirmation request at email #2

- And to be nice, deactivated test Twitter account :)

Good luck!

This ended up working. Thanks so much for the suggestion!

LOL, I was curious if it would work myself, so I tried it and posted the results. It worked for me, too :)

What email provider were you using at first on your account?

GMail. Only thing I can think is that at some point I may have opted out of all emails from Twitter, and somehow this got swept up in that block.

I'm sure you've already checked it carefully, but just in case, have you perhaps made a small typo? I'm asking because I think that would also explain the support not responding.

Yeah, there's not really a place where I could have something typed incorrectly. I get all the Twitter marketing emails, but this one, when I press the button to validate my address it just seems to go nowhere.

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