Bring all your Twitter followers to Mastodon

Since the microblogging platform Twitter has passed into the hands of Elon Musk, the news related to this platform, both for better and for worse, is practically daily and many users have opened a Mastodon account, the closest thing to to Twitter, to use this veteran social network to communicate when the quintessential microblogging social network is a mess that is impossible to fix or just stops working overnight.

Regular Twitter users have adopted this platform to communicate with their environment, since it is the only one that satisfies their needs, needs that no other social network has been able to satisfy. Mastodon is considered the best alternative, although it is not a real alternative since the scope of the publications is limited to the communities of which we are part, they are not available to all users of this platform unless they know of our existence.

Bring all your Twitter followers to Mastodon

If we do not want, overnight, all our contacts and friendships that we have generated through Twitter to stop being available because the platform has stopped working for whatever reason, and that we are not going to assess, we can follow in the footsteps of millions of users and open an account on Mastodon to later add the contacts we have on Twitter.

How to transfer your contacts from Twitter to Mastodon

The first thing that we must be clear about is that we will only be able to migrate our contacts from Twitter to Mastodon, as long as they already have an account created on this platform, since, otherwise, the only thing we can do is invite them to an account is opened. The platforms we are talking about below are responsible for searching the profiles of the people we follow on Twitter for the link to their Mastodon account, as long as they have indicated it.

Twitodon

Twitodon allows us to import the contacts that we follow through Twitter by downloading a file in .CSV format from its platform, a file that we must later upload to the Mastodon platform and that will automatically take care of sending an invitation link to all accounts whose biography shows a link to an account on this platform.

Movedon

The solution that Movetodon offers us is the simplest of all, but not the fastest, since it is not necessary to download any Twitter file for it to analyze and find the links to the Mastodon profiles that users have included in their biography. . This platform makes requests to Twitter through its API to access this information, requests that must be spaced out in time to prevent Twitter from blocking access.

Debirdify

Another interesting option that we have at our disposal to find out which of our contacts have an account in Mastodon and indicate it in their biography is Debirdify . This platform invites us to enter the data of our Twitter (only with reading permission so they can publish each on our behalf) to search for the Mastodon or Fediversy accounts that are shown in the user biography and display them in a list from which we can add them to our Mastodon account .