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@Tibor thanks for helping so many people migrate! You did a good thing.

@Tibor The app was great, I suppose they just wanted to put one final nail in the coffin of apps before lowering it down.

@Tibor Y’all…. #movetodon #TwitterAPI #TwitterMigration #Twitter

@Tibor you built something wonderful, and we'll be grateful for it no matter what BS reason Twitter eventually uses to kill it off. It helped us find each other here and connect quickly, when there wasn't a large window of time to do so.

@Tibor It's worth a shot anyway but this exact thing is what happened to Twitter clients. Quietly suspended, no promised email, no reply. Watch out for a vague tweet from @TwitterDev in a few days' time about how you violated "long-standing rules" that don't exist I guess

Thank you anyway for running this, I convinced a bunch of friends to come over and try Mastodon because of it.

@Tibor “..the game is mine and I won't let you take my chips...”

@Tibor: Thank you for creating this. It helped me find most of my peeps who were still there. But at this point, they won't be finding me as I have finally closed my Twitter account. Fortunately, it is easy to find most others using the search bar in most clients. And I've met a lot of new people as well. It's not worth fretting over when Elon is having a hissy fit and punishing everyone for breathing.

@Tibor coming up with an explanation after the fact takes some time!

@Tibor strange, as debirdify still seems to be working OK

@Tibor "Please give us the time to specially handcraft a fictitious policy you have violated before it existed"

@Tibor hey, big thanks for keeping it up as long as you did!

@Tibor It has been three weeks since I submitted that form for our suspension. Don’t expect a response or any other information from Twitter.

@Tibor Takes about a week most of the time

@Tibor following the third party client timeline the dev account will issue a nonsense statement sometime next week and suddenly a long-standing rule will appear in dev terms and conditions

@Tibor Why not create another API key with another account?

We can have thousands of accounts with thousands of API keys, and let's see if Elon has enough time to ban all of them.

@Tibor I would suggest you talk to a lawyer - perhaps a group like Electronic Frontier Foundation, or a group focused on fighting abusive monopolies, might be interested in representing you in an anti-trust lawsuit.

@Tibor I guess you’re still waiting to hear back more than half a year later?

@Tibor can I get the code somewhere? If everyone host it, twitter wouldn't be able to ban it.

@feynman @Tibor
https://github.com/tibor/movetodon

@Tibor wow, you're kidding..

@Tibor could this be made to leverage the data export that Twitter users an individually request to download?

@mr_rcollins @Tibor unfortunately one still needs to then query the Twitter API to retrieve the handle from the account ID, but at least this info can be cached/shared across users

@Tibor I assume you broke the rules because you offered a ladder out of the prison of twitter

@Tibor@mastodon.social Welp just wrote in my newsletter that I couldnt confirm yet if it was a twitter issue of just a service overload, lemme rewrite that quickly.

this seriously changes things though, damn

@Tibor On the plus side: I expect we'll see more people joining as #ElonMusk is making a toxic mess and messed up (being polite) developers too…

@Tibor damn, it was good while it lasted. thanks for making it, it was incredibly useful

@Tibor thanks for the good work you’ve done up to this point. A lot of us have used your tool to make our place here over the past couple of months.

@Tibor I got the Debirdify app to work for me: https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/ seems like a good alternative

@Tibor @fediversereport unsurprising behaviour from them! I noticed this yesterday when I was trying to switch. I ended up successfully using https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ instead.

@Tibor It looks like Mr. Musk is afraid of competition.

@Tibor isn't it related to the recent announcements regarding the changes in the API pricing?

@Tibor still waiting for our email.

There are alternatives to this, such as https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

@Tibor @fahrni Oh, I feel for you. Been there, done that. Very sorry.

@Tibor glad I did this yesterday!

@Tibor thanks for movetodon.org. Used it last night just in the knick of time! Buh bye Twitter..

@Tibor Thanks for the hard work!

@Tibor Another long standing API rule I guess.

@Tibor Not a surprising move by Twitter. Thanks for making the tool!

@Tibor They're locking everyone in. The gates are closing. There's nothing we can do to help them any more.

The poor people. Trapped in a single app, under the control of a single corporate maniac. :(

@Tibor

People: "We are moving away from Twitter"

Twitter: "Hey, that's illegal or something! You can't do that"