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Re:Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for bei... by threeseed on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:55AM (#34011489)
Related to this. In the Twitter data export for your followers they list the accountId and userLink but not the handle.

So if you wanted to move to Mastodon you can't just use your export as a source.

You would need to hit their API first to translate which I suspect they will remove at some point soon.

Re:Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for bei... by mikestaub on Friday December 16, 2022 @09:49PM (#34023861)
If it ever gets that hostile we can just scrape the website and reconstruct the social graph from the DOM.