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@Tupp_ed you'll be getting your fancy report tomorrow but it works and I got really excited - I hope you don't mind

@jjcelery I want all the goodies shared everywhere

@Tupp_ed I wish everyone got this happy doing data migrations, but alas I'm a weirdo

@jjcelery @Tupp_ed Due to people on leave and a deadline I had to spend most of today cleansing data in prep for a migration. (We had no less than *five* different ways of writing usernames, and I want answers!) But weirdly, it was so much fun to just play around with Excel for the day, and produce a clean output at the end!

@Tarbh I know, right? Talked about this with someone else and they said they would hate dealing with this sort of data and I just got stuck in it because the format got *interesting*

@taoish Ghost is an open source CMS (Content Management System); a publishing platform that is a great replacement for Substack and does a great job as a blog with an optional newsletter.

You can run it really lean:
https://obrien.engineer/ghost-on-do-for-tiny-newsletters/

or run it as a paid service:

https://ghost.org/

It's open source! It's a good thing!

Your Twitter data is exactly the archive you downloaded and I have been working on integrating it into Ghost.

@jjcelery
Thank you so much. I had an anon account on Twitter with lots of valuable anti-fascist info going back to Charlottesville, that I would love to repost somewhere.

@femme_mal I would love if this was something that could be packaged and made free but it's very "bespoke" work for now. DM me if you'd like help / chat

@jjcelery I wish I could help but I'm not a coder.

But the fact you're working on such a project suggests that eventually a monetized option may be available in the not-too-distant future. :-)

@femme_mal oh I mean if you would like to *receive* help - English is such an ambiguous language! I can help

@jjcelery LOL sorry, my bad. It's not your English but my reading. I am in high media consumption mode atm and often overlook prepositions/lack thereof when mainlining content.

@femme_mal well no, that could have been genuinely read either way. But if you want your archive "looked into" I'm your girl

@jjcelery Thanks! I want to talk with my website partner because I think their Twitter archive is a critically important body of work which should be republished.

Mine is +200K tweets but not anywhere near as important, just a good guinea pig since I'm fairly certain my partner's was even bigger.

I will get back with you. Thanks again!

@femme_mal I really didn't think about how critically important this stuff was until... well. Events.

In all seriousness, even if you don't think your stuff is "important" it's still worth preserving. We can do that. Doesn't need to be necessarily published.