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@nomatic @FediFinder I don't see how that violates GDPR. I can maybe see an anti-trust angle, but I don't really know anything about law.

Personally I'd be surprised if there were a law that mandates free (or cheap) API access for third parties.

Banning and without explanation and without responding to inquiries was an unfair move from Twitter for sure (although probably not illegal), but since Twitter has been announcing that they would shut down all API access for everyone anyway I think it would be hard to pursue that angle anyway.

@dennishorn @gavinkarlmeier Hab gerade eine eurer aktuelleren „Haken dran“-Folgen gehört wo es auch um den API-Zugang bei Twitter ging.

Ich habe das Tool #Debirdify entwickelt und da wurde der API-Zugang vor einem Monate "suspended", angeblich wegen eines Regelverstoßes und ich hätte deshalb eine E-Mail bekommen.

Nur: Ich habe keine E-Mail bekommen und trotz mehrmaliger Nachfrage hat der Twitter-Support nicht reagiert.

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@luca 10k GET sounds like absurdly few, especially for $100/month. That's 300 a day.

For something like #Debirdify that would mean something like 100 users a day. Maximum I ever saw was 20k users a day. So even for a tiny experiment like Debirdify this would be much, much too little.

Am I missing something or is it really that bad an offer?

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#Fedifinder still works to find your remaining followings from #Twitter in the #fediverse: fedifinder.glitch.me/

It didn't at first when I tested it today, but after seeing that the old version (fedifinder-v1.glitch.me/) works, I gave it another try and it went through. Down to 538 from 617 accounts. Will have to look into what happened with the rest (deleted?).

#Debirdify sadly got suspended by Twitter last week.

#twitodon is still functional as well: twitodon.com/

Just a thought: *is* open source, so in principle, other people could host their own Debirdify instances with their own Twitter developer account, but if the original one violated Twitter rules than theirs would, too (probably).

has been suspended by Twitter without warning or explanation. Apparently it violated ‘Twitter rules and policies’, but that is all they told us.

We contacted Twitter support about the situation, but we are not particularly optimistic.

We always knew this could happen; it happened to other services in the past, so we are neither particularly surprised nor sad about it.

In the mean time, Fedifinder still works: fedifinder.social

Use it while you still can!

fedifinder.glitch.meFedifinderFediverse accounts of your X/Twitter followings

This morning i ran #debirdify (which is still working by the way) and imported a lot of follows from #twitter - so you might get followed by a swam of #kirts

Follow whichever match your interests.

If you want to avoid politics etc. i try to keep these as just science stuff
@kirt (here) mstdn.science
@kirt@ecoevo.social
@kirt@genomic.social

If you want to follow all that stuff my most active profile is @kirt@mastodon.social

If I'm causing any trouble, tell @TashTaylor - she'll find me and make me sort it out.

@stijnhisken

it's more me struggling to deal with "Mastodon getting tripping"

a swam of #kirts is trying to deal with a disconnected fediverse

explained on my profile pages…
@kirt@mastodon.social @kirt@ecoevo.social @kirt@newsie.social etc.

or more succinctly…
yes, multiple accounts

this morning i ran #debirdify (which is still working by the way) and imported a lot of follows from #twitter

if i ever get a system that works smoothly I'll do a big thread about it as #MastodonTips but now is not that time :/

For a while now, I've been thinking about why some media accounts on #Mastodon grow rapidly and some don't really. The majority of them are filled automatically, so where's the decisive difference?
It looks like I haven't seen the forest for the trees: By far the most helpful thing seems to be a linking to the account on Mastodon on the Twitter profile. So
#Fedifinder and #Debirdify etc. can and as it seems very often do find it. At least until Twitter makes that impossible.

Linking to Mastodon on the own homepage on the other hand doesn't seem to do much.

My small sample suggests that media that link to their Mastodon account on Twitter did accumulate at least 6% of their follower-count, sometimes significantly more than 10%. Without this link, I found a maximum of under 4%.

But there are two notable exceptions.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de until today did not publicize its Mastodon-handle on Twitter, but has reached 17%, whereas the austrian @derStandard@derstandard.at has the link (and its own instance), but stands at less than 1%.

I think
@heiseonline@social.heise.de is growing because of the target audience and the fact, that we're from Germany (where #Mastodon is from) – apart from our content of course. I would hope, that our engagement helped too. But I have no explanation for the case of Der Standard. Maybe someone has an idea. And I certainly would like to see other examples.

Here are the numbers (left Mastodon-Followers, right the ones on Twitter):

Link on Twitter and Homepage:
@themarkup@mastodon.themarkup.org 11k vs. 51k (21%)
@TexasObserver@texasobserver.social 11k vs. 74k (14%)
@tazgetroete@mastodon.social 44k vs. 700k (6%)

Link on Twitter, but not on Homepage:
@ProPublica@newsie.social 64k vs. 912k (7%)
@derStandard@derstandard.at 3k vs. 370k (0,8)

No Link on Twitter, but on the Homepage
@Techmeme@techhub.social 6.5k vs. 430k (1,5%)

No Link on Twitter or Homepage:
@heiseonline@social.heise.de 44k vs. 246k (17%)
@STAT@newsie.social 6k vs. 166k (3,6%)
@swr3@mastodon.social 1.5k vs. 146k (1%)

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