Downloading a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap my Twitter clone
@caseynewton whomst among us
@caseynewton It just doesn’t even make sense! In his mind, what did he think Stubstack could even do with ‘the Twitter database’?
@janeo3000 @caseynewton that was my sticking point. It’s fridge logic. It sounds vaguely plausible until you walk to the fridge, and as you’re looking for something to eat, you realise “what the actual f…?”
@grissallia @janeo3000 @caseynewton More importantly, who on his skeleton crew would even be able to detect that a single entity was "downloading" Twitter data? They're all too busy putting up doge pictures everywhere but the favicon.
And that's before you get to the fact that Elon apparently doesn't know what a VPN is, or how DNS works at all, based on his decision to block a domain.
@caseynewton wouldn't it be easier to buy it from the Sauds?
@caseynewton if digg users had copied it and brought it to reddit too......ooof they kinda did, do you really want that?
@caseynewton What you do in the privacy of your own home is your business.
@caseynewton literally “just setting up my twttr”
@caseynewton I hope to spool up my own Mastodon instance eventually and figure out how to back load it with my 15 years of the bird app. Not sure how I'm going to manage that yet.
@wackomedia @caseynewton I did that. You have to hot fix some files, but then you can just use the API to import the Tweets. https://github.com/lucahammer/fediporter
@luca @caseynewton Oh snap! Thank you so much!
@wackomedia @caseynewton when I downloaded my archive I got a pdf of a list of brand accounts I’ve engaged within and litteraly nothing else.
@parisinla @caseynewton I got my full archive and was able to use the "twitter parser" to make it usable on my drive. This is where my limited knowledge makes explaining that difficult, but I can say for sure it's possible to get your data from the birdapp, at least for now.
@caseynewton Hol up, Elmo would like to have a talk with you.
@philip @caseynewton something about Rocco, I imagine.
@caseynewton shhhh… he who shall not be named may hear you! 
@caseynewton who looks at old tweets
@caseynewton Young man, let's not waste time with social networks that here at Substack we pay for it...
@caseynewton Please send me a beta invite when "Newtter" is available. I'll then send you a "newt" to say thanks and hope many people "renewt" my newt. Thanks!
@caseynewton awesome! So you can explain to us how exactly that's supposed to work
@caseynewton omg Casey you're so messyyyyyyyyyy 
