General talk:Social Media Archive

Emergency Preservation Effort

Setting aside any politicality around the current situation with Twitter and its owners, based on the current chatter going around it looks like the website may be abandoned by the games industry and its individual developers; Emil Pagliarulo himself has deleted his account and moved to Bluesky (but we already had everything relevant to Elder Scrolls preserved on his posts page luckily).

We should really set about preserving as many materials as possible in preparation for any account purges to come in the future. I've made a list here of all the official TES relevant accounts that ought to be combed for these materials. --TheRockWithAMedicineCupOnHisHead (talk) 15:40, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Accounts

https://x.com/ElderScrolls https://x.com/elderscrolls_de https://x.com/TESOnline https://x.com/TESLegends https://x.com/TESCastles https://x.com/BethesdaStudios https://x.com/sparkypants https://x.com/direwolf https://x.com/TESBlades_JP https://x.com/TES_Blades_SEA https://x.com/TES_Blades_TH https://x.com/Bethesda https://x.com/Bethesda_UK https://x.com/bethesda_ESP https://x.com/Bethesda_jpn https://x.com/Bethesda_fr https://x.com/BethesdaLATAM https://x.com/Bethesda_ANZ https://x.com/Bethesda_Nordic https://x.com/bethesda_de https://x.com/bethesda_me https://x.com/bethesda_it https://x.com/bethesda_nl https://x.com/BethesdaBrasil https://x.com/bethesda_TR https://x.com/Bethesda_RU https://x.com/bethesda_pl https://x.com/BethesdaGear https://x.com/BethesdaGearInt

Bluesky posts

As stated above, setting aside any political aspects of the current situation with Twitter, I think Bluesky posts should be added here too. Firstly, Bluesky is essentially a "Twitter alternative." Secondly, if it is agreed that Bluesky posts are allowed on this article then the current article name, "Twitter Archive," should be updated to reflect that it now includes posts from more than one platform. A lot of new artwork is not only being posted on Bluesky, but uploads on this site are also being linked there. Take these posts for example https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Category:General-Bluesky_Images And don’t even get me started on how Twitter isn’t even called Twitter anymore. --KevinM (talk) 16:16, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Very sensible suggestion. Any idea on the new name of the article? --Ilaro (talk) 17:47, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

I was thinking "The Elder Scrolls Social Media Archive" since it sounds flexible enough to cover posts from Bluesky, "Twitter," and potentially other similar platforms in the future. --KevinM (talk) 18:08, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Putting "The Elder Scrolls" in front is a bit superfluous and makes it take longer to find, I think keeping it simple to just "Social Media Archive" or "Microblogging Archive" (given that Twitter and Bluesky are both microblogging social media services) would be better The Rim of the Sky (talk) 19:55, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

"Social Media Archive" and/or "Microblogging Archive" sound better. I'm voting Social Media Archive --KevinM (talk) 21:03, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Done 👍 20:41, 2 May 2025 (UTC)