News is moving quickly tonight: Movetodon has gotten shut down by Twitter due to unspecified 'rule violations'. This makes it matter of utmost urgency to preserve as much of the Twitter bot developer community as possible, as the deadline of February 9th shutdown cannot be presumed to be safe.
If you have worked with the #twitter API in any capacity, please check out this work by @tchambers:
For all non-developers: access to friend-finding tools cannot be assumed to last until the February 9th deadline. So use them while you still can.
Tools that are currently still available that help you find your Twitter friends:
https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
https://twitodon.com/
If you're looking for more context what this is all about, you can find that in my weekly newsletter: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-fediverse-ep-4
If you want to use a friend-finder tool that works well, but also care about great vibes, take a look at:
https://mastodon-flock.vercel.app/
A great way to find your Twitter Social graph, in a delightful windows-95 look. Pretty much the same functionality as Movetodon, but it's API luckily still works.
