Day 720 - Twitter Plan B - https://golifelog.com/posts/twitter-plan-b-1671582153083
Ok so after writing about [platform risk on Twitter](https://golifelog.com/posts/twitter-platform-risk-1671411641106) and feeling paranoid about things there, I decided to do something about that and set up a Plan B in case things go sideways.
1. Replicate Twitter account on Mastodon
2. Auto-tweet to a mirror Telegram channel
3. Auto-backup my tweets and followers to Google Sheets
Setting up a Mastodon account was initially confusing due to the servers you have to choose. The original Mastodon server were closed to sign-ups, so that didn't help. The other servers were more niche topical sites which didn't resonate, or needed manual approval which sucks. In the end, I found the mas.to server which a few indie hackers are on, and went for it. Too bad there's no easy way to auto-tweet to Mastodon – you got to create a API key in Mastodon, then set up a Zapier webhook to do the auto-tweet via Twitter. Might explore that at a later stage. Btw this is my Mastodon handle:
### [@jasonleow@mas.to](https://mas.to/@jasonleow)
The auto-tweet idea got me thinking of using my pro IFTTT account, so I set up a applet to auto-message new tweets to a dedicated Telegram channel. So this Telegram channel now acts like a mirror of my Twitter account, and it comes with discussion feature activated too so followers can reply too. I like this setup – I've always liked building on Telegram, and run many communities on it. So makes sense to have a personal 'account' here to direct people to. The next step is to kill the connection to Twitter and have it auto-message via say Google Sheets. My Telegram channel here:
### [jason_leow channel](https://t.me/jason_leow)
I also created 2 more applets in IFTTT to auto-backup every new tweet and new follower into their respective Google Sheets. That way I at least have a backup of all my content and following moving forward. As for all the followers before, I had a csv file downloaded from one of those Twitter backup apps. So that would suffice.
Things feel more assuring and secure with this Plan B in place.
Now back to regular work! Enough of this Twitter drama and distraction...
1. Replicate Twitter account on Mastodon
2. Auto-tweet to a mirror Telegram channel
3. Auto-backup my tweets and followers to Google Sheets
Setting up a Mastodon account was initially confusing due to the servers you have to choose. The original Mastodon server were closed to sign-ups, so that didn't help. The other servers were more niche topical sites which didn't resonate, or needed manual approval which sucks. In the end, I found the mas.to server which a few indie hackers are on, and went for it. Too bad there's no easy way to auto-tweet to Mastodon – you got to create a API key in Mastodon, then set up a Zapier webhook to do the auto-tweet via Twitter. Might explore that at a later stage. Btw this is my Mastodon handle:
### [@jasonleow@mas.to](https://mas.to/@jasonleow)
The auto-tweet idea got me thinking of using my pro IFTTT account, so I set up a applet to auto-message new tweets to a dedicated Telegram channel. So this Telegram channel now acts like a mirror of my Twitter account, and it comes with discussion feature activated too so followers can reply too. I like this setup – I've always liked building on Telegram, and run many communities on it. So makes sense to have a personal 'account' here to direct people to. The next step is to kill the connection to Twitter and have it auto-message via say Google Sheets. My Telegram channel here:
### [jason_leow channel](https://t.me/jason_leow)
I also created 2 more applets in IFTTT to auto-backup every new tweet and new follower into their respective Google Sheets. That way I at least have a backup of all my content and following moving forward. As for all the followers before, I had a csv file downloaded from one of those Twitter backup apps. So that would suffice.
Things feel more assuring and secure with this Plan B in place.
Now back to regular work! Enough of this Twitter drama and distraction...