I am always trying to figure out better ways to keep archive stuff. Twitter is really hard. I have been trying to find an answer for it. I've had a lot of help, so I thought I would show you what I mean.
Archive
Here is a post by Voultar. He is telling people someone ransacked his lab. Others are saying his shelves collapsed. He is a retro engineer of some repute so it's an interesting look.
https://x.com/Voultar/status/1791882321731228093
Here is an archive of that post. Notice how it's a single post in a thread with no comments.
Here is a thread reader look at it. I pay $3 a month to do this. Notice how it's just the posts from the thread. No comments.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1791882321731228093.html
Here is an archive of the post on thread reader
This is the post on nitter. I have to keep finding a new one to get it to work.
https://nitter.poast.org/Voultar/status/1791882321731228093
And then the nitter archive. I need to edit the link to get what I want.
Here is the ghost archive. Yeah, if this is real, we have a winner. I have had to edit it slightly to get it archived, but it worked.
Wow, that ghostarchive one is impressive.
Someone else in another community used Twstalker but when I did use it, it doesn't show all the replies and if you're not using an ad-blocker, it can be painful to use.
Ghost Archive needs to be made the default for archiving considering how well it worked compared to the other alternatives. I'm guessing they're using sleeper logged in accounts to snapshot the page, so it's not guaranteed in the future should Elon have a purge but it's better than what we have now from the usual suspects.
Yeah, this will be my default for stuff from X. It's way better.
archive.today works for most stuff, though not videos.
I use that for most articles. Videos? I just post a link.
X started charging for Twitter API. I think that severely limits the options. If something is public, it could be archived, but most archivers will respect X's wishes. Which is I imagine that they control who can see old tweets.
So what's needed is piracy.
Sadly that may be true. Let's steal the statues before they're destroyed.
From my moral perspective, X has a right to display those messages and profit from them. The original posters retain copyright. Therefore X has no (moral) monopoly on how this information is displayed -- in fact they are kind of in debt to the posters. They probably disagree, legally, but that's how I feel. The posts are public. X has first dibs and a certain right to reproduce them how they see fit.
In no case does anyone have a right to hide information by restricting its reproduction. That violates natural law that's more powerful than copyright.