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 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?
@christopher I'm not sure about the load status bar, @vincent is the owner of the project.

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

Thanks @vincent for making this.

bird.makeup: Twitter bridge to the fediverse