Elon Musk said in a tweet to purge accounts that have been inactive for more than a year in 30 days to free up @s. I'm not sure how credibly we can take his tweets but given he now owns the website, I'd start archiving art from inactive artists who you know only post on Twitter.

I wonder how this will affect Nitter archives...

alphamule said:
I wonder how this will affect Nitter archives...

As far as I know, Nitter uses the public Twitter APIs to grab the requested information, so any changes to Twitter accounts will be reflected in Nitter instances.

does anyone have a download-all-the-posts button

strikerman said:
does anyone have a download-all-the-posts button

I've been editing source of Nitter pages to replace thumbs with full ones and saving complete pages... Yeah, a tool would definitely be better. You can run your own Nitter instance for example.

strikerman said:
does anyone have a download-all-the-posts button

I was previously using the Twitter Media Downloader plugin for Chrome and it worked pretty effectively. I think there was a way to download the tweets too, and not just the media, but I can't work out how to do it right now. I've mostly been using Reverser.

Wow. Nice to see that thousands of artworks will just be gone... I wasn't too scared about the Twitter takeover... Now I am just pissed...

TwImg works, too, right? But that's just images AFAICR.

I'm on Firefox, and sometimes using Edge. Does this have an Firefox version or a Firefox equivalent to that?

alexyorim said:
I'm on Firefox, and sometimes using Edge. Does this have an Firefox version or a Firefox equivalent to that?

https://github.com/morinokami/twitter-image-downloader Not the userscript called twimg. I don't even know if it still works as I don't use the Python tool, anymore. A userscript is actually not that bad an idea as the code just calls the page's own methods.

alphamule said:
https://github.com/morinokami/twitter-image-downloader Not the userscript called twimg. I don't even know if it still works as I don't use the Python tool, anymore. A userscript is actually not that bad an idea as the code just calls the page's own methods.

How will this be different from Twitter's own data archive?

Personally, I prefer gallery-dl to download an artist's twitter gallery instead of using a browser extension, though I guess it can be tricky to use if you're unfamiliar with using a command-line.

If you make a text file of which every line has a URL to an artist's twitter profile, then you download all of their art with gallery-dl -i twitter_list.txt, where "twitter_list.txt" is the name of the text file in this example.

If you want to change the behaviour of some things, like specifying the filename format of downloads or setting a specific folder for them to be saved in, then you can create a config file. All the options you can set in a config file are explained here. Also, for it to work, the config file has to be named "gallery-dl.conf" and be place in your user directory, on Windows you can find your user directory by putting "%USERPROFILE%" in the address bar of Windows Explorer, or opening it by pressing WIN+R and entering "%USERPROFILE%".