Original timestamp of tweet not used while importing from Twitter archive

[nazimulhaque]

Hi, it's a very useful repository, no doubt. What to do if I wish to record the original tweet timestamp in place of import time which is shown in Pleroma timeline while importing tweets from a Twitter archive?

[robertoszek]

Hi! Have you tried using original_date on your config already? Something along the lines of this:

pleroma_base_url: https://pleroma.instance
users:
- twitter_username: User1
  pleroma_username: MyPleromaUser1
  pleroma_token: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  archive: /path/to/archive.zip
  original_date: true # <--

This will add the creation date of the original tweet to the body of the post on Pleroma:

New thing! Consume product!

 🐦🔗: https://nitter.net/someuser/status/1234

[2022-12-13 01:14]

Unfortunately neither Mastodon nor Pleroma support setting a date in the past when posting new statuses (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12423), so this is the best we can do from our side.

If after setting original_date to true you're still encountering issues, let me know so we can investigate further.

[nazimulhaque]

I forgot to mention that I had obtained the same result following your mentioned method before I created this issue. But instead of displaying the time in the body of the Pleroma post, I need it to be treated as the time of posting in Pleroma.

Thanks!