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Unfortunately it may no longer be an option as some have said the 2FA SMS needed to download the archive is not responsive.

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2FA SMS just worked for me. I have little faith that I'll ever actually receive the zip archive, though.

Mine had an option for e-mail or SMS. Never got the SMS, but e-mail worked.

I love how it says "To protect your account" it can take 24 hours or longer for your data to be ready.

"It takes 24 hours" is a clear sign that it's a human being looking up an internal documentation page and running the scripts it points to.

Unless I'm just not creative enough to reason why you can log into twitter from a country you've never been to with no 24 hour verification wait but fulfilling legal obligations takes 24 hours.

In their defense, if the backup requires accessing archive tape drive records, long processing queues in non-scalable systems, etc - this could easily take 24 "physical" hours of things getting lined up correctly.

It's one thing to show you the last 24hr of tweets. Another to get a complete twitter history for given uid.

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