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by fudged71 2070 days ago
Can someone tell me why it’s so hard to extract bookmarked tweets off Twitter? I don’t know of any API or scraping option for getting thousands of bookmarks out of the platform. Those are the most useful tweets to me
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We're working on the API for Bookmarks right now. Hoping we can ship this before too long. https://trello.com/c/qztXMWCK/76-bookmarks-v2-twitter-api
Thanks Andy! I know this will be useful for a lot of people
How do you even bookmark a tweet nowadays? Does this feature still exist? Because I can’t find it.
I've used Twitter nearly every day for years, and the first I heard about bookmarks was on HN a while ago. I've always just used favs as a bookmark substitute.

They recently added it as a prominent menu item on the website, but it's still a complete mystery about how to create a bookmark (buried under share icon, which is semi-usable on desktop and completely awful on iOS).

Yes, this could be better. it's in the "..." menu in the Twitter website and iOS and Android apps, but not currently available in other apps.