Mike Masnick ✅Feb 2, 2023
So with Elon now charging for API access to Twitter, and lots of tools likely to shut down... we should at least expect another influx of developers coming to Mastodon, and hopefully users as well...
Show threadKirk KittellFeb 2, 2023

@mmasnick Developers, yes. I don't know about users. I'm not a Real Developer, but I have one bot there (posts a word of the day in Chinese, has maybe 3000 followers). I assume that the autoposter will break and most followers won't even notice--just another drop in the stream that quietly disappeared.

Only way I could see it transferring a substantial number of users is if the bot owners set up something here now, then start manually or autoposting links to their Mastodon profile/post URLs there for this last week. I mean, if we're going to get kicked out unceremoniously, hey, why not take a little something with us.

Show threadMike Masnick ✅Feb 2, 2023

@kittell sounds like a plan.

But the thing is, if more developers keep coming here, users will come as well.

Show threadKirk KittellFeb 2, 2023
@mmasnick I think it will certainly trend in the right direction, and that will be a feedback loop that keeps it going. I only disagree with the folks (not you, but there was a post in my stream near yours) who think it will be a tsunami.
Show threadMike Masnick ✅
@kittell oh yeah. i don't think it will be a tsunami either. I do think steady growth is the best and most likely path
Feb 2, 2023 at 7:12pmWeb
Show threadKirk KittellFeb 3, 2023
@mmasnick Obviously this isn't much, and I don't have a big following, but I'd like to see everyone about to lose a bot do something like this: https://twitter.com/ZhWOTD/status/1621545670187302914
Chinese Word of the Day on Twitter

“Thank you all for following @zhwotd for the past six years. After @TwitterDev revokes free API access next week, I assume the bot making the posts here will stop working. If you find this small service helpful, I am now posting on Mastodon: https://t.co/UUNq370JDk”

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