Remote Host is ending on July 10th...
...and I don't know if they're going to delete the Twitter account.
There are so many tweets with stories and art that aren't found anywhere else, and of course all standard ways of backing up Twitter don't work.
The only answer is to do it manually, but there are a lot of tweets, the first being posted on June 16, 2021 (despite the account being up since 2020).
It's possible to use the Twitter search to find tweets from a specific range of dates, which is what I've been doing to experiment with finding the very first tweet, so it's not like you need to scroll to the very end of the account's feed.
If there are nineteen of us, then we can each cover a range of 95 days.
And I know that sounds like a lot! But I did the math: nineteen of us means we will each get six groups of 15 days. Broken down like that, it's much more manageable, it's just that I can't do it alone.
There is also no guarantee that every day within a range has any tweets, but there are some days that have a lot, such as when a big announcement comes out (like at the very start, 6/23/21 has all the cast announcements).
Some tweets also seem to be repeats, like links, but I think they should still be included for the sake of completion. And of course, any self-retweets can just be noted as such instead of having to copy the content again.
The method of backup would be to copy and paste the original Japanese text, any links, any hashtags, any images, and the timestamp into an assigned Google Doc.
I'm in the process of creating the docs in a folder on my Drive, each is named for the range of dates. I will share the folder in a reblog to this post.
We have less than a month to do this, so please claim a doc and start backing everything up!
Once everything is saved, then we'll be able to upload everything to the Umatani Fan Wiki at our leisure!
