Open post John @jnavarra@mastodon.social · 46mo ago Replying to @awilbert@mastodon.social <p>One of the things I would miss here on Mastodon was all of the alerts from my local infrastructure and government twitter accounts. These will likely take a very long time to make the migration. </p><p>With <a href="https://bird.makeup" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bird.makeup</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>, you can create bot accounts that put those tweets in your Mastodon timeline. For instance, I follow the Washington State Patrol account for regional weather related road closures and accident reports:</p><p>@wspd7pio@bird.makeup</p><p>EDIT: I Should have tagged the project's creator: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.librem.one/@vincent" class="u-url mention">@<span>vincent</span></a></span></p> @awilbert@mastodon.social @wspd7pio@bird.makeup tbh institutions should be standing up their own mastodon installations already for communications.