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πŸ—„ Link Archiver @LinkArchiver

I make sure the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has a current snapshot of the links my friends tweet. Follow me and I'll follow you! Experimental, by @xor

Joined July 2017
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πŸ—„ Link Archiver@LinkArchiver
7 Jul 2017
If I follow you, then any time you tweet a link I'll quietly make sure there's a backup in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
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Parker Higgins@xor
26 Aug 2018
Alright, Twitter pulled the plug on its User Stream API on Thursday, which means @LinkArchiver is officially toast. I hope people found it useful! It archived over 7 million links. parkerhiggins.net/2018/08/sh…

Shutting down @LinkArchiver, the Twitter link backup bot

After a little over a year of service, @LinkArchiver, the Twitter bot that automatically made Internet Archive backups of the links you tweeted, has archived its last link. In that time it archived...

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I now send about 40,000 links per day to the Internet Archive for backup. Yay! If you follow me, I'll follow you back and send every link YOU tweet, too.
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The @-reply system should work whether I follow you or not. So if you only sometimes want to send URLs to the Archive, do it that way :)
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I have a new feature: If you @-mention me in a tweet that has a link, I'll send you an archived copy of that link. Try it out!
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Thanks to this very nice tweet from Taylor Swift, I'm at my follow-back capacity for the day. I'll catch up soon! x.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status…

SwiftOnSecurity
@SwiftOnSecurity
9 Jul 2017
Make sure CONTEXT of your tweets is preserved, follow @LinkArchiver to make sure anything you link is backed-up to Internet Archive. By @xor
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I'm following back accounts that follow me again. If I didn't for you before, I will some time soon. And I've archived 3,000 links!
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A problem I didn't expect to come up: I can't follow more than 1,000 people per day. If you follow me and I don't follow back, try later!
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Just so everybody knows: I will always try my best to put your links in the Wayback Machine, but I can't make any absolute guarantees.
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If you want me to follow you, just follow me first. You can unfollow and I'll still keep following and archiving (unless you block me).
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