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Comment by benlumen | Hacker News Reader

Nice idea.

Related - Is there anything that can add the select number of Twitter accounts I want to follow to this Atom or RSS feed?

Without exposing myself to toxic replies, toxic suggested tweets and toxic trending topics? I've thought for years there should be something like that. Presumably it's a grey area with APIs or scraping.

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I’m sure there's a way to do it but Twitter dropped RSS/Atom support from their API in 2012 [1], so it would require scraping or using some sort of other endpoint-managed control of the feed. There have historically been usage limits on how many tweets you could retrieve without paying, but I’m not sure how much that has changed since Twitter overhauled its API last year.

It’s a shame that many of the tools and features we had a decade ago no longer exist, not because of technology, but because of decisions social networks made for business reasons to eschew open standards and create their own walled gardens.

[1]: https://mashable.com/2012/09/05/twitter-api-rss/

It all comes down to ads. Twitter can't show ads so easily via API's. I think I even remember Twitter considering sticking ads in batches of tweets pulled from the API. Can't recall if they did it or not or if I'm misremembering.

I follow a couple friends via the RSS feed created by nitter.net: https://nitter.net

Newsblur does let you follow Twitter accounts; they have an API integration. Tweets from accounts you follow show up as stories in your reader.

A lot of various apps do that by connecting to the Twitter API. I read Twitter through Feedbin.

I believe you can use Rss-bridge to follow Twitter users.

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