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 threadJonDec 24, 2022
@awilbert @[email protected] I created a couple but it's not showing anything. Does it take time before they start showing the tweets?
Show threadAdam Wilbert
@BikingViking @[email protected] It may take some time for the bridge to start pulling content from twitter. That seems to be the nature of federation? The project's creator @vincent would have better insight into how often tweets are brought across.
Dec 24, 2022 at 5:13pmWeb
Show threadJonDec 24, 2022
@awilbert @[email protected] @vincent Thanks!
Show threadVincent CloutierDec 24, 2022
@awilbert @BikingViking @wspd7pio Thank you for doing user support for me! That is right, the service iterates on all twitter accounts that are followed, then forwards that to fediverse users. That whole process takes (for now) a few hours.
Show threadJonDec 24, 2022
@vincent @awilbert @[email protected] thank you.
Show threadChristopher Dec 24, 2022

@vincent @awilbert @BikingViking @wspd7pio

Thanks for the timeline update. I’ve seen a couple of Twitter posts and I’m waiting to see them populate over here. For the broadcast-only accounts I follow on twitter, this should completely replace twitter.

I wonder if a bridge service that relays replies back as the twitter user would be a helpful thing. I can see it devolving into a big mess of cross-platform duplication and confusion. But… in some cases it might be a good thing.