“But why do they do it this way?!” Almost certainly data engineering constraints.
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It's not that hard :), your hard drive might fill up in a day or two though.
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scrape your account twitter page 1 time per hour, it can be scale-able if you don't keep the original HTML file.
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Because no one else wants to or can do it for more than a few minutes.