Tweetbot is (mostly) working again

Tweetbot is back online after an outage left major third-party Twitter apps broken. The service currently lets users sign in and browse, but users are still struggling to post tweets.

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And now dead again, along with some old unused API keys, which proves that this was intentional and we and others were specifically targeted.

I wouldn't have swapped out the keys in the first place if there was even a shred of communication. Figured if nothing else this would push the issue.

Oh well, on to smaller but greener pastures.

@paul to overcome this, i’m now trying to build a tool that syncs my timeline to a private mastodon server… to many of my contacts still use twitter sadly and i can’t live without tweetbot, but ivory as twitter client could be my solution :D
@niko not sure if you’ve already looked into it, but you might try BirdsiteLive https://github.com/NicolasConstant/BirdsiteLive to bridge between Twitter and Mastodon?
GitHub - NicolasConstant/BirdsiteLive: An ethical bridge from Twitter

An ethical bridge from Twitter. Contribute to NicolasConstant/BirdsiteLive development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@exkclamation i’m not exactly sure what that does 🤔 will it just crosspost between the platforms or is it practically cloning my twitter timeline to mastodon? 🤔

@niko as far as I understand, it lets you set up a server on your own domain to follow any Twitter account on Mastodon. You can test it out on some birdsitelive servers already out there, see https://fedidb.org/software/birdsitelive

As an example, on Mastodon if you follow @[email protected] (replace ‘tapbots’ with any Twitter user name) it will show their new tweets here.

You can’t boost the posts here, and of course favs/replies don’t go to Twitter, but otherwise works pretty well so far for me.

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@exkclamation yeah so it creates like a virtual account for them here… but like this, i can’t interact with them really 😅

@niko exactly. Not perfect but at least a partial workaround for now

I look forward to seeing what you come up with as a more functional bridge

@exkclamation if i get it to work i will toot about it and put it on my github! but those apis are complex and i need to get a sense for them first 😵‍💫😁