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 Oh, this is fantastic! One thing I was lamenting when deleting the Twitter app from my phone was that I wouldn't get notifications from the LA Metro Alerts account anymore. Just fixed that! Thanks for sharing, and thanks to @vincent for going to the trouble of making it.