Topic: asking artists on Twitter if they have art on other art website(s) (in case Twitter goes poof)

Posted under Art Talk

So Twitter has been having problems, and I'm worried it might go poof, offline, whatever.

(In the context of this forum thread:) mainly a problem for
1) artists who only upload their art to Twitter, or
2) artist on Twitter who haven't tweeted a link to their other art gallery/galleries (ie. twitter going poof would be difficult for the fans who know of artist's twitter, but don't know of other official gallery for that artist)

Wandered across @el_booki on Twitter,
skimmed their 2022 tweets and didn't notice any links to another art website.

Posted a tweet to them:
"Thanks for the revue of your 2022 art. Do you have art gallery at any art website(s)? Skimmed your 2022 tweets looking for links to DA, e621.net,FA,etc & didn't notice any. Wondering in case Twitter goes poof (Twitter no longer has janitors https://inthesetimes.com/article/twitter-janitors-on-elon-musk-takeover )"

(hope including e621 in shortlist of that tweet was ok)

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If an artist has tweeted official alternate source(s) for their art, maybe archive useful tweet(s) (and artist's main Twitter URL if useful) using Wayback Machine...
in case Twitter goes poof.

e621 forum thread with some tips regarding archiving: topic #31378

Any other forum topic(s) that are helpful regarding Wayback Machine?

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(Hope this makes sense, have to head out now before local shop's closing time.)
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(not sure which forum category to put this in... hopefully "Art talk" category is ok)

Updated

Which artists only have a twitter??
How about suggesting to those artists they maybe get a backup gallery for their art.

Any improvements to suggest on tweet in above post?
part of tweet "... Do you have art gallery at any art website(s)? Skimmed your 2022 tweets looking for links to DA, e621.net,FA,etc & didn't notice any. Wondering in case Twitter goes poof ..."

(twitter 2023 Feb news: "Elon Musk fires additional 200 people"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/27/elon-musk-fires-additional-200-people-at-twitter-report-says )

Linktr.ee came up in a private message for this same reason. Sites do go down, and archives don't always work, especially if the site is designed not to be archived (or scraped).

Protip: Upload source images from your own computer, not the ones from Twitter, if you have them. Most sites recompress/resize/resample images.

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