How to fix 𝕏's broken "Download an archive of your data" feature
I recently exported my Twitter (now 𝕏) data archive to clean up some old tweets. Once I started generating it, it took about 24 hours to create the archive.
The URL I received to download the archive was in the structure https://ton.twitter.com/i/ton/data/archives/123456789/twitter-2024-05-25-hash.zip.
Trying to access this URL gave me an error in Safari. I tried to do it in Chrome, but got a 401 Unauthorized error as I wasn't logged in to 𝕏 on Chrome.
I realized that recently, the app migrated to the URL x.com.
I tried accessing https://ton.x.com/i/ton/data/archives/123456789/twitter-2024-05-25-hash.zip, and it worked correctly -- the fix being ton.x.com, instead of ton.twitter.com. It seems like the URL was hardcoded somewhere and when they moved it over, they didn't update the code.