Murph alt🚨 SAVE YOUR STUFF 🚨
If you post research to Twitter and have not had a chance to archive or save your posts, now is a good time to do so. I expect the recent TOS updates to disproportionately affect activists even more than we've already experienced.
Here are some tools for archiving:
Download friend lists and last 3200 tweets:
https://tweetbeaver.com
Extensions for grabbing all the media off of Twitter accounts for Firefox and Chrome:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tw-media-downloader/
Archive important threads here:
https://web.archive.org/save
Most tweets after late 2019 are automatically saved to the Wayback Machine and can be retrieved with tools like this (requires API access): https://github.com/travisbrown/cancel-culture
Older threads will need additional attention.
If anyone is migrating to Mastodon and wants a list of your friends from Twitter to auto connect with: https://www.movetodon.org/
I also recommend using Fedifinder or Debirdify and exporting the CSV just for account verification later even if you don't plan on following people today.
Note: you can look up Mastodon friends of accounts other than your own with Debirdify.
We do have some research account backups saved from a few weeks ago but if you have posted anything important that needs to be preserved externally please grab it.
Kathy Griffin
