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   Doug Wilson (onpaperwings@typo.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 02:11:50 JST Doug Wilson

   Ok, I’ve been silent on Twitter since El*n purchased it, but I’m now ready to fully delete and burn it all down.

   What have people used to either just straight-up delete or backup and then delete?

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         n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦 (n8@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 02:11:49 JST     n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦

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     @onpaperwings I did a conference talk about this topic a month or so ago. The best utility I found for self-republishing is one that re-processes your official "account backup" to static files (like decoding internal IDs to account names), but even then I found that thoughtful post-processing was needed to make the result usable for the real world (e.g., to search or to be able to find the archive for a given old tweet link). I could point you to the talk page if you cared.

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         n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦 (n8@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 02:17:21 JST     n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦

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     @onpaperwings Shortcut to the actual converter tool is here: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser in case the full talk sounds overly detailed. The high points are that this utility produces clean output that's easily enhanced if you need to do that (and you likely will, since API rate limits restrict how much auto-repurposing any outside tool can do).