Manually rebuilding social media followings across platforms is time-consuming and error-prone
Users migrating from Twitter to Mastodon face the tedious task of manually identifying and following the same accounts on the new platform, as there's no automated way to match Twitter handles to Mastodon identities. This friction causes users to lose connection with their existing network, defeating the purpose of switching platforms. Current solutions require manual searching for each account, which is impractical for users following hundreds of people.
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From: Ask HN: Is there a tool to follow all the people I follow in Twitter in Mastodon
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Payment intent for service: service
From: Ask HN: Is there a tool to follow all the people I follow in Twitter in Mastodon
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I have started using Mastodon, but a big pain is following the same people I have been following in Twitter. Some of them have Mastodon ids too, but it is a pain to manually find their Mastodon ids and follow them. Is there a lookup service that will automatically do this?...
I have started using Mastodon, but a big pain is following the same people I have been following in Twitter. Some of them have Mastodon ids too, but it is a pain to manually find their Mastodon ids and follow them. Is there a lookup service that will automatically do this?...
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Problem Details
- Category
- productivity
- Pain Keywords
- manual data migration, social network portability, account matching, platform switching friction
- Signals Collected
- 2
- Created
- 2026-07-12 23:20