Adam WilbertDec 21, 2022

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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Show threadChristopher Dec 24, 2022
@awilbert Brilliant! The server looks overloaded (red bar at 277% in attached image)… is this a POC to get others to run these bridges or is this server going to be a ‘public service’ instance?
Show threadAdam Wilbert
@christopher I'm not sure about the load status bar, @vincent is the owner of the project.
Dec 24, 2022 at 4:57pmIvory for iOS
Show threadChristopher Dec 24, 2022

@awilbert @vincent Thanks. The source code page https://sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/ talks about the official instance.

Thanks @vincent for making this.

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Show threadVincent CloutierDec 24, 2022
@awilbert @christopher Yes, it is designed as a big instance. That bar comes from the original @BirdsiteLIVE . I'll switch it during my holiday break to the time of the last fetched tweet + the time it takes to iterate on all twitter accounts that are followed.
Show threadChristopher Dec 25, 2022

@vincent

Just curious, should I expect twitter posts to start making their way into my feed by now? I followed some accounts on your server yesterday. Some have posted today, and nothing is showing up yet.

Merry Christmas.