If you woke up one day and discoveruddy that Twitter no longer existed, what would you do?

Would you be more concerned at the loss of your data, or the fact that you could no longer connect with friends and frenemies in the Twitterverse?

Regardless of whether you tweet for personal or business reasons, your tweet data (which would include texts, links, etc.) is probably just as valuable as your blog content.

For those of you desiring to preserve your tweet stream just in case the fail whale reigns supreme, here are 5 simple steps WordPress lovers should follow in order to safe guard their twitterverse.

Step 1) TwitterPress 2.0?

The first thing you need to do is create a home to host your hundreds or thousands of tweets (which will be converted into hundreds or thousands of blog posts!!!).

Since the last thing you want to do is annoy your main blog audience with zillions of random posts, I suggest that you create a 2nd blog (or rather micro blog) upon a domain you own in order to house your new tweet stream.

You can select a subdomain (i.e. tweets.bloggingpro.com), a folder (i.e. bloggingpro.com/tweets) or upon an entirely new and well thought out domain name.

Step 2) Choose Thy Theme

This part isn’t a critical step, but one you might want to fulfill as it will be the most visible part of your new blog.

You want to install a theme that is simple, hassle free and elegant so that it will not become a support drain down the road.

I would recommend choosing a WordPress theme that mimics the appearance of your Twitter layout or p2 by Automattic (the latter which is highlighted above).

Step 3) Import Thy Tweets

Although importing your tweet stream upon your shiny new micro blog can be accomplished by WordPress, users may want check out a plugin called Twitter Importer for WordPress by Brad Touesnard (as shown below).