I decided to import my twitter achive, which I now realise it’s littered with t.co links. I’m torn between sorting the links (over 2000 entries) out or just deleting them. They offer a narrative of my online activity over a number of years, which would be a shame to lose.
@kaa hmmmm… I’d be inclined to pre-process the archive and change t.co links to their destination URLs before import. I'd be so inclined, actually, that I’m requesting my archive now, to use as test data for this process. Can you post-process them?
@grayareas Right! It's a clear reminder that actually my archive is still fully linked to Twitter. If Mb get better editing features I'm definitely going to go through it all and sort them out, but now it feels like a real chore.
@kitt I'll need to delete all of the archive I uploaded into my timeline. Then go into the CSV file that has everything change them and then rezip and upload (cross fingers). Might actually be the better way if I'm honest.
@kaa @kitt This is what I did before I imported my Twitter archive to my WordPress site. Ended up writing a hacky PHP script to replace the t.co links with the originals that Twitter gives you in the archive as well as convert everything to a format easy to import into WordPress with the right date and timestamps etc. It was painful, but I did get it to work.
