I’ve archived my Tweets: Goodbye Twitter, Hello Mastodon
Today, Jeff Sikes @box464@firefish.social, alerted me to the fact that “Twitter has removed all media attachments from 2014 and prior” (source: https://firefish.social/notes/9imgvtckzqffboxt). So far, it seems unclear whether this was intentional or a system failure (source: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/110922114407553901).
Since I’ve been on Twitter since 2011, this means that some media files are now lost. While the loss of a few low-res images is probably not a major loss for humanity, I would prefer to have some control over when and how content I created vanishes. So, to avoid losing more content, I have followed Jeff’s recommendation to create a proper archival page:
https://anitagraser.github.io/twitter-archive/
It is based on an export I pulled in October 2022 when I started to use Mastodon as my primary social media account. Unfortunately, this export did not include media files.
To follow me in the future, find me on:
https://fosstodon.org/@underdarkGIS
Btw, a recent study published on Nature News shows that Mastodon is the top-ranking Twitter replacement for scientists.
To find other interesting people on Mastodon, there are many useful tools and lists, including, for example:
- Cartography, Geovisualization & GIS on Mastodon
- Geographers on Mastodon list
- Followgraph for Mastodon
Update 2023-11-04: I’ve completely deleted my X / Twitter account. If you find any account pretending they are me on that platform, it’s an impostor.