One of the things I would miss here on Mastodon was all of the alerts from my local infrastructure and government twitter accounts. These will likely take a very long time to make the migration.

With https://bird.makeup, you can create bot accounts that put those tweets in your Mastodon timeline. For instance, I follow the Washington State Patrol account for regional weather related road closures and accident reports:

@[email protected]

EDIT: I Should have tagged the project's creator: @vincent

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@awilbert doesn’t seem to be working? Bot account I created didn’t show a tweet that the corresponding twitter account just tweeted out
@pinkoos @awilbert
Click the saturation stat - it’s over the limit for API activity, so that means not every tweet will come across. It’s unclear how effective this tool will realistically be