hosting an open source 𝕏 archive that you control | SimonXIX

by Simon Bowie

It’s time to leave 𝕏 if you haven’t done so already. I stopped posting there and locked my account immediately after the US election when it became clear that the owner was a de facto US Government functionary. Now that the owner has de jure political power and is clearly a neo-Nazi, it’s definitely time to leave.

But what if you’re a librarian (or a former librarian like me) or someone else who has a deep-seated pathological need to archive and preserve? My 𝕏 archive is, to my shame, the largest corpus of text that I have ever produced and some of it at least is worth preserving. If you have an institutional 𝕏 account, you may have more serious policy and legislative reasons to preserve the archive and make it publicly accessible. This post outlines the ways that I have preserved my 𝕏 archive using both the Internet Archive and a tweetback website that I control.

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