People moving social networks struggle to find old contacts
People moving from Twitter/X to Bluesky and other networks want to rebuild years-long follow lists, but their contacts are scattered across platforms and can be hard to identify. Many resort to searching or following people one at a time, while losing access to an old profile can remove their only reference. The evidence is strongest for cross-network contact discovery and follow-list rebuilding, not broader bot management or feed discovery.
For people rebuilding their social networks after migrating platforms. Mentioned from Jul 2023 to Sep 2026 on Bluesky, GitHub, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.
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i would pay like a solid $250 to get my following list back from twit and to like actually find those ppl again. like i talked to so many of those people on the phone for like hours and i dont even remember their names anymore to look them up 😭
Is there a tool that that can read your twitter followers and find the accounts for you to follow on Bluesky? I feel like that would help the transition a lot
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