Finding your Twitter peers on the #Fediverse is easy with fedifinder.glitch.me
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/10/30
Edit 20221118-19: Added Twitidon
Lot’s of interest in Mastodon and other social media projects in the Fediverse now that Musk tries to reign Twitter.
Jan explained how easy it is to your existing Twitter peers in the Fediverse and import them using fedifinder.glitch.me:
- [Wayback/Archive] @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net on Twitter: “I just used
fedifinder.glitch.meto find 366 Twitter accounts that are also on the #Fediverse, downloaded the generated CSV file and imported that to my mastodon account (Preferences, Import, Following list as Merge). Easy peasy.”
- [Wayback/Archive] Find Fediverse accounts of your Twitter followings
Fedifinder looks for
@user@host.tld,user@host.tldandhost.tld/@userin the screen name, description, location and url field.
Because of Twitter API rate limiting, only the most recent 3000 followings are looked at. If you get a “Rate limit exceeded” warning, wait about 15 minutes and try again. - [Wayback/Archive] Fedifinder
Search names, bios and locations for fediverse handles and URLs.
- [Wayback] Glitch :･ﾟ✧ fedifinder source
- [Wayback/Archive] lucahammer/fedifinder: Find fediverse addresses in the profiles of your Twitter followings
Be sure to include the above code formatted Fediverse information in your Twitter profile to make it easier for others to find you.
Uploading can take a while, and after that processing is queued and usually takes even longer, so you usually get this message:
Import: Your data was successfully uploaded and will be processed in due time
Twitodon
Another tool that helps you find back Twitter peers is [Wayback/Archive] Twitodon – Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
Like fedifinder, it is open source: [Wayback/Archive] diddledani/twitodon: Twitter to Mastodon account mapping service to aid migration away from Twitter without losing all your followed friends)
Unlike fedifinder, it works in a different way: it keeps a map of twitter/mastodon addresses of people that have previously searched through Twitodon, then returns the matches as downloadable Mastodon addresses.
Via
- [Wayback/Archive] @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net on Twitter: “I just used
fedifinder.glitch.meto find 366 Twitter accounts that are also on the #Fediverse, downloaded the generated CSV file and imported that to my mastodon account (Preferences, Import, Following list as Merge). Easy peasy.” - [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “Note uploading the list to Mastodon is not always processed immediately: “Your data was successfully uploaded and will be processed in due time””
- [Wayback/Archive] mastodon find twitter friends – Google Search
–jeroen
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