PDS Twitter Importer / Archive

[bmann]

The premium version of a Twitter archiver would be:

• a PDS, with a custom domain name
• everyone gets a user name with their original Twitter handle
• upload your Twitter archive to import, including all media

Possible features:

• old content is updated over time to "repoint" to the location of archived content / usernames -- e.g. either on the same service or somewhere else (e.g. Tweetback Canonical mapping
• if original web links are dead, attempt to get a wayback machine link version
• a specialized client that does display / search / other custom Twitter features that Bsky doesn't have, or somehow maps between them

These are a handful of ideas. Add your own in the discussion thread, as well as pointers to different

Existing Archive / Importers for AT Protocol

• Developer command line tool by @marcomaroni.it https://github.com/marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky
• Blue Ark https://blueark.app/ - commercial paid service that uses the API