🚨 SAVE YOUR STUFF 🚨

If you post research to Twitter and have not had a chance to archive or save your posts, now is a good time to do so. I expect the recent TOS updates to disproportionately affect activists even more than we've already experienced.
Here are some tools for archiving:

Download friend lists and last 3200 tweets:
https://tweetbeaver.com

Extensions for grabbing all the media off of Twitter accounts for Firefox and Chrome:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tw-media-downloader/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/twitter-media-downloader/cblpjenafgeohmnjknfhpdbdljfkndig?hl=en

Archive important threads here:
https://web.archive.org/save

https://archive.today

Most tweets after late 2019 are automatically saved to the Wayback Machine and can be retrieved with tools like this (requires API access): https://github.com/travisbrown/cancel-culture

Older threads will need additional attention.

If anyone is migrating to Mastodon and wants a list of your friends from Twitter to auto connect with: https://www.movetodon.org/

I also recommend using Fedifinder or Debirdify and exporting the CSV just for account verification later even if you don't plan on following people today.
Note: you can look up Mastodon friends of accounts other than your own with Debirdify.

We do have some research account backups saved from a few weeks ago but if you have posted anything important that needs to be preserved externally please grab it.

#osint #twittermigration #alerta

@murphtracks
I can't get into my Twitter account. They locked me out saying I have to confirm myself which I did but they keep saying no- that's not right. So in a cycle. I put in my bio my Mastodon address so I guess I was flagged and being punished.
@MlleaPankhurst lots of accounts getting flagged for random things. First time I've heard of a mastodon link causing issues. But yeah the phone number sweep hit a bunch of people.
@murphtracks @MlleaPankhurst
What is/was the phone number sweep?
@morgandawn @MlleaPankhurst Musk blocked traffic from roughly 30 mobile carriers. This also hit Ukrainian accounts pretty hard. https://www.platformer.news/p/how-elon-botched-his-war-on-bots
How Elon botched his war on bots

PLUS: Why it's time to start leaving Twitter behind

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@murphtracks @MlleaPankhurst

Thank you. I had heard about Ukraine but not the other regions/carriers