Archived Tweets

I finally got around to importing my whole historical Twitter archive (just my own original tweets, not replies or retweets) into this WordPress site as a proper Custom Post Type: https://chriscoyier.net/tweets I haven’t added it to the navigation or anything else on the site yet. Not sure what I want to do there. Just feels good having my own data. I used this and hacked it up a bit to fit my needs, and so I didn’t have to leave it as a permanently installed plugin. It’s coming at a weird time, with quite a few people “going back” to Twitter. It’s actually called X now; I’m aware. It’s named after the hand gesture you do when Elon Musk asks if you’d like to come over for a dinner party: 🙅‍♂️ Casey Newton just saying, “Look, I tried, but X is where the action is,” and John Gruber being like, “Take a whiff; the Elon stench is gone.” I understand both of those things. I honestly really like both Mastodon and Bluesky, but after years and years, the fun and engagement have never reached…