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67 points| onosendai | 13 years ago |twitter-rss.com | reply

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[+] bdz|13 years ago|reply
The still working Twitter RSS: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_n...
[+] donretag|13 years ago|reply
I do not use Twitter, but I subscribe to handful of Twitter handle via RSS using the above method. Works like a charm.
[+] anu_gupta|13 years ago|reply
Wonder how long before this is blocked by Twitter. Probably not very.
[+] Bjoern|13 years ago|reply
Thanks for pushing out such a site, really interesting and useful.

Couple of things,

- Seems you are violating their TOS https://twitter.com/logo#naming

> In March 2013 Twitter will shut down the RSS feed - that's > a fact! - and reason why we created this free RSS service.

- As of April 13 (today), it seems RSS is still working on the Twitter API, https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_...

- Finding something on Twitter and RSS/ATOM shutdown despite searching for some time yielded nothing.

[+] onosendai|13 years ago|reply
I'm not the author, I just though the service might be useful given the impending shutdown of RSS access to Twitter and the continuing demand for it.

Yes, they are violating the Twitter TOS regarding naming/branding, but it should be easy to work around it.

So far it seems the site hasn't had much exposure, and I'm interested in how Twitter will respond to it if it increases. If they really want to prevent the re-packaging of user's tweets into RSS feeds, and depending on how they're obtained (through API access, plain old HTML skimming, etc..) things could get interesting.

[+] shurcooL|13 years ago|reply
I've recently started using Twitter's own rss for Hacker News Top 150, it's very convenient.

Shameless plug: if you'd like to see all the people you follow with their single latest tweet, try my little experiment:

http://shurcool.github.io/latest-tweets

It works for public lists too, just write username/list. The more yellow the tweet, the more recent it is.

[+] scholia|13 years ago|reply
Tried your shurcool link and the results are interesting and useful, so thanks for that. I picked up links I had missed.

However, it only shows about a hundred results (guess) and I have over 20,000 followers. Also, some entries are just the name, with no actual tweet.

[+] pixelbeat|13 years ago|reply
This gives RSS for a particular users' public tweets.

I'd love a service to provide an RSS feed of my timeline (would require giving auth of course)

[+] kmfrk|13 years ago|reply
The API for your timeline only goes so many tweets back, though. I think it's 3xxx tweets or thereabouts.
[+] mmahemoff|13 years ago|reply
I was looking for such a thing tonight and ran across this AppScript trick http://www.crossbrowser.net/290/using-friendfeed-to-automati...

It's less likely to be blocked by Twitter because you have to register and use your own client ID. I couldn't get it to work for some reason, though.

I was installing because there are a ton of tools that rely on Twitter RSS, e.g. to auto-post to Facebook and the like. Those are broken now.

[+] vgoklani|13 years ago|reply
They will block you for using "twitter" in the url. They own the trademark, so the name needs to be changed.... and yes, they will most definitely cancel your keys! But I like your idea! It's very cool.
[+] wyclif|13 years ago|reply
Better English version of your pitch line: "Get the latest tweets from your fave users in RSS."

The way it's written now is a bit awkward in English, and I can tell a native English speaker didn't write it.

[+] crabasa|13 years ago|reply
This is probably an older site, given that they list Google Reader as one of the options for consuming their RSS.