Edit 2023-02-05: @ElenLeFoll has done a great video on using Debirdify. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMzB2h2noEA

Edit: Twitter has blocked Movetodon. Try one of the other services below.

Given that twitter is going to start charging for api usage next week, but has neglected to give anyone any info about rates, I recommend running https://www.movetodon.org/ one last time while you still can.

None of the migration tools will work after the 8th (give or take some timezones).

Here’s a list of similar services operating as of 2023-02-04

Debirdify https://debirdify.pruvisto.org
Fedifinder https://fedifinder.glitch.me
Twitodon https://twitodon.com
Mastodon Flock https://mastodon-flock.vercel.app

Flock is the easiest to use, despite the hilarious Windows 95 UI. It actually adds the follows to Mastodon, the others export a CSV file which you can import in the import/export section of your Mastodon preferences.

Twitodon found far fewer acounts when I used it (20 vs. 112). I don't recommend it.

Fedifinder scans lists as well. It also will recommend a Mastodon host to use based on where your friends are. (You can use it before you have a Mastodon account.)

Debirdify will search people who follow you as well. And also tells you which services it thinks you should use. Can also read lists, and gives a very long summary. But I get very confused as to what I'm exporting if I also do lists. Basically, if you want to import lists, do them first, they include everyone you follow. Also, don't freak if it just sits there for a while doing nothing--it will refresh the screen eventually (with great charts). But do double check and make sure there isn't an error in there about rate limits--it's hard to spot.

Not working:

Movetodon https://www.movetodon.org/

Making the move from Twitter to Mastodon using Debirdify

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@nazgul Thanks for reminder - just joined this week and just ran movetodon.org/ - such an easy-to-use tool 
@nazgul @WarnerCrocker Interesting. When I try to use the link and sign onto Twitter, I get a wrong password message. But when I sign onto Twitter directly, the password works.
@TammyGentzel @nazgul I wish I could say I was surprised. But given what’s going on I’m not.
@TammyGentzel @WarnerCrocker If you used the same browser you signed into twitter on, it should just go straight to the authorization page, not ask for a password again.
@nazgul there’s no guarantee it will actually continue to work till then either…
@nazgul thank you for sharing this! Tried it and found my people! #Grateful 🙏 #TwitterMigration
@nazgul that was literally the first thing I did after reading the news.
@nazgul Any chance of a GoFundMe to keep it alive for a while?
@fyzzlefry I'm guessing that will depend on the pricing. Which in classic Elon fashion, they've neglected to plan out in advance.
@nazgul ran it again and it picked up some 25 more peeps yay
@nazgul Same goes for https://semiphemeral.com/ if you want to nuke your old tweets.
Semiphemeral

Automatically delete your data from tech platforms, except for what you want to keep

Semiphemeral
@nazgul did this again and got 47 more people.
@nazgul Didn’t Must also prevent people from adding their mastodon account into their profile a few months back? I haven’t seen any new accounts on Movetodon since the second or third wave.
@nazgul Yikes - good shout, will do this tomorrow and flag up to the orgs I'm helping to migrate!

@nazgul

Thanks so much KH!!!!

I've just run it - it went absolutely fine, and am now following about 350 of them!!

(Follow-backs appearing, well not quite like popping corn, but a little bit like it for a while!😄 )

@nazgul I need to remember to do this when I'm on the computer
@nazgul found so many more people! Thanks for the reminder! ❤️
@nazgul @marcoarment very good recommendation. I last ran this a month ago and ran it just now to find that one of my favourite titter folks that had gone silent is on Mastodon now. Very exciting

@nazgul

I think they’ve been cut off early. I just went to movetodon.org and after hitting the button for the first step (login to Twitter), I’ve got nothing but a bank page

@ShawnL Everyone has been posting reminders today, so it's probably under some load. I had to wait quite a bit for the list to appear and start populating, but I got a last batch of old follows sorted eventually.

@nazgul

@ShawnL @nazgul
Just had the same thing happen to me. May be too many requests
@nazgul And there is this thread on it that is showing mostly if not all negative views in response to it.
https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922
Twitter Dev on Twitter

“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵”

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@nazgul Oh well.. It's currently throwing a 500 error. I'll try again later.

This page isn’t working

www.movetodon.org is currently unable to handle this request.

HTTP ERROR 500

@wunderwood They may well have hit their rate limit.

Here's a list of similar services. (fixed link)
https://axbom.me/notice/ASHNTsMMDsfX4QqjbM

Per Axbom (@[email protected])

As I saw @nazgul point out, the tools for finding your Twitter friends’ Mastodon accounts will likely stop working next week, when Twitter API usage starts costing money.You may want to run them ag...

@nazgul Thanks! I was able to click through & get https://fedifinder-v1.glitch.me/ to work for me 👍
Find Fediverse accounts of your Twitter followings

Extract the fediverse handles and urls of your Twitter followings.

@nazgul the website appears to be down 🥹
@nazgul - lmao error message, the site is too busy to respond at the moment. I'm glad people are grabbing their friends while they can.
@nazgul it's already not working for me. :(
@nazgul was working earlier... Doesn't seem to be now 🤔
@nazgul interesting coincidence 🤔
@nazgul It seems like it may already be too late.
Per Axbom (@[email protected])

As I saw @nazgul point out, the tools for finding your Twitter friends’ Mastodon accounts will likely stop working next week, when Twitter API usage starts costing money.You may want to run them ag...

@nazgul Thanks Kee. I definitely preferred movetodon.org for it's straightforward UX. Ah well

@nazgul #movetodon no longer (or at least currently not) working for me, either. But #debirdify seems to still be okay 🤞

https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/

Debirdify

This is a web app that helps you find out which of the people you follow on Twitter are on Mastodon/in the Fediverse already and follow all of them easily.

@nazgul I can't access Movetodon today. But Debirdify is still working. I just did a final check and found a couple of people I hadn't already followed. I assume they (edit: the sites like Movetodon and Debirdify) will all be blocked (edit: by Twitter) soon.
#feditips #Debirdify #MoveToDon #TwitterMigration
https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/
Debirdify

This is a web app that helps you find out which of the people you follow on Twitter are on Mastodon/in the Fediverse already and follow all of them easily.

@azzageddi @nazgul Same, I couldn't access #Movetodon either - the page was just blank. Thanks for the tip!
@nazgul It’s not working for me. It just loads a white page.
Per Axbom (@[email protected])

As I saw @nazgul point out, the tools for finding your Twitter friends’ Mastodon accounts will likely stop working next week, when Twitter API usage starts costing money.You may want to run them ag...

@nazgul movetodon's initial login page seems to be broken (at least on mobile). Any other paths?
Per Axbom (@[email protected])

As I saw @nazgul point out, the tools for finding your Twitter friends’ Mastodon accounts will likely stop working next week, when Twitter API usage starts costing money.You may want to run them ag...

Per Axbom (@[email protected])

As I saw @nazgul point out, the tools for finding your Twitter friends’ Mastodon accounts will likely stop working next week, when Twitter API usage starts costing money.You may want to run them ag...

@nazgul Starts with charging for a tick, then turns into blocking journalists, to just shutting down the API with no notice, to putting API back but with a fee. At this point, any one still using that site needs to ask themselves why they are still there and, the most important question: what is the next feature to be a paid feature? Images? GIFs? Tweets beyond 140 characters? Yep! That’s a great site/app to keep using!

@nazgul

significant problem: when twitter started banning mention of Mastodon apparently lots of people removed the refs.

600+ previously, vs 50 today.

@nazgul I'm not entirely sure they are working now.
@nazgul I have seen the rates. Not sure when they were posted.
@SmartmanApps the rates I’ve seen going around are for the professional tier that already exists. The only one I’ve seen about what’s going to replace free is Elon musing that maybe $100 a month would be good . He claims this is to cut down on spam...but spam bots don’t use the API, they pretend to be users using the web interface. It will certainly make it harder for people monitoring hate speech and misinformation though. Plus useful things like the bot the captions videos for the deaf.

@nazgul The rate I saw was $149 for up to 5,000 calls (or something like that).

And yes, everyone else knows it won't fix the bot problem at all - this is just deja vu of "Charging people for Twitter verification will fix the bot problem".

@nazgul Here we go. It popped up in my timeline again this morning
@nazgul it's not feb 8 yet but i keep getting error 500...😐
@nazgul big animals elephant fly wings over sea grass people kids wild animals friends zoo cages hot weather water lakes food
@nazgul @elakdawalla Thx! Was looking for alternatives since movetodon wasn’t working.

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After using https://www.movetodon.org to find your Twitter friends,

Find relevant people to expand your network https://followgraph.vercel.app/

Movetodon: Finds your Twitter Friends on Mastodon

This is how I discovered that @ACM have a Mastodon Server! As a long time ACM SIGGRAPH Volunteer, I will have to move my account there!
@nazgul Thanks for this! I couldn't get to movedodon.org but currently exporting from one of the other services!