Here's how to download and store your Twitter archive, as the platform's future is uncertain after Elon Musk said bankruptcy wasn't out of the question

Elon Musk is reportedly planning to slash roughly half of Twitter's 7,500 employees this week. But the conflict between Twitter's old guard and the new owner's loyalists is just getting started.Getty Images

• Twitter's future existence could be threatened after Elon Musk said bankruptcy is possible.
• A recent report said losing Twitter would likely result in losing troves of records from modern history.

Earlier this month, the MIT Technology Review published a piece titled, "Twitter's potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history." The article discusses the important role Twitter has played in collecting historical documents by becoming a "de facto public archive."

Indeed, Twitter's future existence is under threat after Elon Musk officially bought the company for $44 billion last month, saddling the company with more than $1 billion per year in debt payments as some advertisers pause spending on the platform.

In Musk's first address to Twitter employees after purchasing the platform, he warned that bankruptcy was a possibility if the company didn't start generating more cash.

With the threat of Twitter's failure a looming possibility, many Twitter users may want to download and store their data from Twitter outside of the platform. Here's how to do it.