Another new tool in this vein is Fedifinder. It works by scanning Twitter bios of accounts you follow for strings that look like Mastodon addresses: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
5 years ago there was a neat tool called Mastodon Bridge that did what Twitodon says it does but much better, I think because it didn't require everyone opt in. It stopped working because of some change Twitter made to their API terms of use. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-bridge
There's also Moa Party, but it's so complicated I have never used it. https://moa.party/
I actually have my twitter and mastodon accounts linked with this, but I assume a bridge like the other commenter requested would allow to follow any twitter acount from your Mastodon account.
That is exactly what Tapbots has done with Ivory - Taking Tweetbot and using that as the basis for a Mastodon client. I've been using it for the past few weeks and it's fantastic https://tapbots.com/ivory
Heyo - builder here! This was a weekend hack. The main pain I found using Twitter is searching bios. Follower Lead is a simple tool allowing you to match words against twitter user's bios.
Unfortunately ActivityPub (that powers Mastodon) has a lot of incidental complexity (including RSA signatures, JSON-LD, RDF normalizations to quads etc.)
This tool lets you broadcast your pub key on twitter using a specified format, and the app will add you to the directory, and you can use it to find others that have also done that.
Also, if you go to https://snort.social/new, you can enter your twitter handle, and it will find everyone from you're twitter follows that you're not already following and let you sign up to follow them all.
> I'd be glad to learn of any other cool features and extensions that y'all might want to share.
I built an extension to inject your Mastodon timeline into Twitter[0], recently added Firefox support as well. Especially useful as a stop gap in light of Twitter getting rid of their API access and hopefully will be a first step for many to transitioning to Mastodon.
There's external tools[1] that will clone your toots to Twitter. Nothing integrated, though, and Gargron has said he'd rather keep it that way. [2]
Nothing's stopping you from making your own fork and fooling around with it though. Well aside from "not wanting it badly enough to spin up a local Mastodon instance and spend some chunk of the precious few hours remaining of your life on it".
I’ve done this recently. Essentially created a browser extension that combines Mastodon and Twitter on twitter.com. It works surprisingly well, but I’m guessing catching up with Twitter.com changes is bound to be painful.
I'm releasing every week or two to Glitch unless I can get more funding. Latest version is on https://glitch.com/~hogumathi, there's supporter links and licensing info in the readme (public releases are AGPL).
Mastodon explicitly doesn't follow these kinds of opaque algos for recommending tweets.
The risk that someone will create a "knock-off" twitter? Give me a break. Anyone could do that at any time, there's nothing special about Twitter except the enormous network effect.
The only risk I can see in open-sourcing the code is that it would make it easier for people to game the system and attack it in the short run. But opening it to scrutiny and review will make it more robust and less susceptible to attack in the medium-to-long term.
5 years ago there was a neat tool called Mastodon Bridge that did what Twitodon says it does but much better, I think because it didn't require everyone opt in. It stopped working because of some change Twitter made to their API terms of use. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-bridge
There's also Moa Party, but it's so complicated I have never used it. https://moa.party/
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