Vincent Cloutier  

I'm getting a lot of question about what's currently working with bird.makeup, so here it is:

The system is mostly back online, but there are some major limitation when crawling new posts.

- To be forwarded, a post has to be in the top 100 of an account as measured by likes
- There are no retweets being forwarded right now

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Vincent Cloutier

To fix the crawling, I'm going to need to start using Twitter accounts to fetch new posts. This is getting complicated for the time I can put on this as a side project, so I'm going to rely on Nitter implementing this, then I'm going to use that. You can track progress here: github.com/zedeus/nitter/issue

There is another thing I can fix natively in bird.makeup though. I noticed pinned tweets are there in user lookups. I can forward this, and the top 100 limitation doesn't apply to that.

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Radu Ursache  

@vincent maybe a way for us to provide our own accounts? i selfhost bird makeup and would like to use my accounts for the scrapings

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Chase :ani_clubtwit:  

@radu @vincent Yeah, what accounts are included in this? I keep trying to add my own, but none of them work. I get an error each time.

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S★m V★rm★  

@vincent Very nice work! I think if/when threads federates there will be far less need for this...

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