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.
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.