Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

Does anyone know what happens to @[email protected] and esp the html pages it has generated if Twitter goes down? Basically, I'm curious if unroll requests are a good way to 'backup' threads I'd like to keep visible on the web, like those linked here:

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/aihype-take-downs-5c6fcc5c5ba1

#AIhype take-downs - Emily M. Bender - Medium

On reflecting on how much time I spend working to deflate and counteract AI hype, and how much of that ends up as Twitter threads, I thought it would be useful to have a place to link to all of them…

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Show threadDr. Casey FieslerNov 11, 2022
@emilymbender Oh I was wondering this too! I thought it was copies of text and not embeds, but I could be wrong.
Show threadProf. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Nov 11, 2022
@cfiesler I feel like we should be able to answer this question by looking at the page source for an unrolled thread. Brb.
Show threadProf. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Nov 11, 2022
@cfiesler Result: Lots and lots of links to twitter, but also the text content of the tweets in plain text in the html source. So, they might look a mess, but the data is there?
Show threadHarshad SharmaNov 11, 2022
@emilymbender @cfiesler Adding both the thread page and unrolled page to https://archive.org/ might be another redundancy?
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Show threadJoseph KohlmannNov 11, 2022
@emilymbender I saw this yesterday, which may help with that: https://mathstodon.xyz/@timhutton/109316834651128246
Tim Hutton (@[email protected])

If you download your #Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links. So here's a #Python script to convert a Twitter archive to #markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.

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Show threadProf. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Nov 11, 2022
@jkohlmann helpful yes, but also way more work that I have time for right now!
Show threadJoseph KohlmannNov 11, 2022

@emilymbender Agh, fair. Also, I’m sorry Emily, I misread the specific issue you were asking about 🙈

Everything I’ve seen on this depends on the site using the original Twitter-provided embed code, which as you’ve already seen, embeds at least the text content of the tweet. It’s workable but gonna be messy.

Anyway, apologies for the confusion on my end 😅

Show threadAli AlkhatibNov 11, 2022

@emilymbender based on the FAQ page... it looks like you would need to pay for membership or download a PDF. might be good to support them on principle, but once i have my data (~14 years of data is taking some time to export i guess... 😅😓) it might be preferable to work on a script to style/present tweets in a way i would actually want to embed in presentations and stuff

anyway, link here: https://threadreaderapp.com/help

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Show threadProf. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Nov 11, 2022
@al2 @cfiesler ^^
Show threadJed BrownNov 11, 2022
@al2 @emilymbender I wonder if they would reconsider this policy in anticipation of Twitter going down (versus being legitimately deleted by the author or moderated by Twitter). It seems antisocial to batch repost threads here, though that can be automated using the API and making all but the first post unlisted might be acceptable.
Show threadJo Ran🥑Nov 11, 2022
@emilymbender Very good question. I haven't thought about that possibility. I have a list of unroll myself, but not all the content I'd like.
Show threadJoe Taylor Jr.Nov 11, 2022
@emilymbender To my knowledge, Thread Reader is a totally independent app supported by memberships and donations, so the links on *their* domain should stay put. (For as long as the admins there can stay in business, that is.)
Show threadElliott BranchNov 11, 2022
@emilymbender I don’t have a direct answer to your question, but I’ll share what I know. I’m a premium user of threadreader.app (30USD/yr). That allows me to capture Twitter threads and save them to PDFs. Almost any thread I thought was worth saving, I keep in this format. Hope this helps.
Show threadLibby HemphillNov 11, 2022

@emilymbender Webrecorder's archive.page works, but on the Twitter page, not the Medium page. https://webrecorder.net/tools#archivewebpage.

I made examples from your link: https://nftstorage.link/ipfs/QmVQdnM3dxTdqu3QkNxbK9j2wWjTNc3dgHDoWULN8xBWLg/

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