maybe not. turns out on the internet, everyone is weird.

anyway, i definitely remember having a secret rule to myself to not follow more people than follow me. i'm not sure why. it made me look desperate? it was a faux pas? i like to see the numbers in ascending order?

i probably subconsciously didn't follow cool people other places* cause i was like "wait but if i follow too many people yadda yadda"

at least here, i could be following 10x the number of followers and no one would know. doesn't fix the core of the issue of "why do i even care about this." but at least i can worry less about, like, participating. it's still in like the back of my head though.

*mostly birdsite

So there's a lot of people wanting to grab what they can before our beloved birdsite goes tits up. There's a few tools out there that can help you do that!

One thing to know is that tools that use the official twitter API (aka the tools that talk to twitter nicely for the non-programmer folks) can only retrieve up to 3200 tweets, and are bound by request limits within certain time intervals.

There are also tools that don't use the API and are more like scrapers; aka they just go over the posts one by one, save them, move on to the next, and so on. If you've got a big account with >3200 tweets, you probably want to use a scraper tool

I'm writing this lil guide just to make it easier for folks to grab what they want and run; it's not always simple, especially for the non-techy folks!

Click "read more" for the guide!

welcome, everyone fleeing twitter.

The wheel of fate must turn

for pokemon to arrive