How to download your online data from google, twitter, facebook?

   We people are living in the age of information both ours own and the public data.  We people are completely dependent on internet and the services provided by the giants like google, yahoo, facebook, dropbox, twitter, flickr so and so...

  Privacy of people and their online data becomes talk of the world(! town..), many online service providers(especially social networking media) give provision to their users to download their data.  We will see how to download data from google, facebook & twitter.

1.  Google



  By google's takeout , one can download his online data of google services like drive, g+, blogger, contacts, youtube etc (Ref the image about complete services).

  Once you go to the google's takeout homepage you are prompted to enter your username and password(yes! your gmail account).  After login you will see a webpage like the one in right side, either you can select all the services or few particular services.

Note:  Sadly google not provides the google reader data :(






2.   Facebook

• Login into your facebook account (or click here to go to settings directly.)
• Click on the wrench symbol(on right top) and select account settings.
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• Select General tab, click on the Downlaod a copy of your Facebook data link.
• Click on the Start my archive button.

3.  Twitter

• Login into your twitter account (or click here to go settings directly).
• goto settings (click wrench symbol on right top & select settings) 
• scroll down & click on Request your archive  

  Once the archive is ready, download link will be sent to your email registered with twitter.
   

How to know/follow an original account of a celebrity in twitter?

  Are you sure that you are following the original account of a celebrity in the twitter..?
May be the question is strange to you...(for some people may be not).  But, in reality it is true.  Yes, it is true, in twitter there are hundreds of fake account for every celebrity from Amitabh bachan to Amisha patel, Rajinikanth to Rakki sawant, Sachin tendulkar to Shilpa shetty.  It is a kind of identity theft.

  So, how to find the real/original celebrity account in twitter..?

  A long back twitter introduced a feature "Verified account".  It ensures the identity of the twitter account holder.  So, before follow any celebrity in twitter, ensure the account is a verified one or not(Some exceptions are there, Still there are few celebrity[in terms of my/your opinion] either don't have twitter account or their twitter account is not yet verified.. ).

  So, how a verified twitter account look like?
  All the verified accounts have a white color tick mark in side a small blue color GEAR(Wheel with teeths) like this,

Verified twitter account of A. R. Rahman

 How to find these verified account and follow it..?  Just search the celebrity name in the twitter which returns all the related results, now select only people.  Find the account with the symbol.

For your convenience i list some Indian celebrities verified twitter accounts, Just click and follow.

@sachin_rt
@ashwinravi99
@pitrodasam
@FarOutAkhtar
@narendramodi
@PMOIndia
@ShashiTharoor
@anandmahindra
@arrahman
@aamir_khan

Note: Few web sites/services are there there that scans you account, and provide you a detailed report about your follower/following.  One such nice website is
http://thetwitcleaner.com/ - Don't worry about your username and password it just going use twitter's OAuth.   But, you have to authorize the app to access your account.

How to change the username of your twitter account..?

1. Login into your twitter account
2. goto -> settings(on top near to search, in the drop down last but first option, just before sign out) -> account(on leftside menu first option)
3. You can see your full account details like username, time zone, mailid etc.. In username textbox type your new desired username and wait for twitter's response regarding the availability of that username.  Try with some modification in the username until you get username available message.  Once you got go to the bottom of the page and save changes. 
Thats all now your username is changed to new one as you entered.


Note: 
1. Details are based on the look of twitter in desktop/laptop web browser not from mobile browser.
2. Once your username is changed you should use that new username while signin into your twitter account.