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The still working Twitter RSS: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_n...

I do not use Twitter, but I subscribe to handful of Twitter handle via RSS using the above method. Works like a charm.

I believe the official RSS feeds (along with all other unauthenticated endpoints) are going away imminently.

Set to be retired on May 7th[1]

[1] https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-retirement-final-dates

Wonder how long before this is blocked by Twitter. Probably not very.

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.

They started doing "blackout tests" [1] last month and are switching it off completely on May 7 [2]. (The public RSS feeds are a part of API v1.)

[1] https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-retirement-update [2] https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-retirement-final-dates

Thanks for the links! Very sad to see the ongoing destruction of the openness and usefulness of Twitter.

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.

Just was digging through API v1.1 seems that there is a way to get a JSON (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/user.json) but that needs authentication apparently.

https://twitter.com/logo#naming

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.

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.

Thanks.

Just to clarify, it shows your followees, as in the people you follow.

It currently shows up to 100 followees because I use a single twitter API call. Some of the tweets being empty is probably because that call is deprecated (and would have to be replaced by two calls). Given their whole API version 1 is now deprecated, replaced with auth-requiring 1.1 that would break the simplicity of the current app, I didn't spend too much effort on polishing it.

However, feel free to open an issue, if enough people +1 it, I'll try to fix it sometime. :)

Awesome tool!

Thank you! :)

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)

The API for your timeline only goes so many tweets back, though. I think it's 3xxx tweets or thereabouts.

Which would be fine. RSS usually has a limited number of entries

Could always use the "download an archive of my tweets" thing as an optional way to backfill.

But is it possible to expose an API for your archive containing all your most recent tweets?

It will scale in most instances, if people provide the first x,xxx tweets, though.

Thats a cool idea. I wonder if the "Rules of the Road" 100k user limit would apply in such a case. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/terms/summary

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.

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.

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.

You should probably checkout http://getprismatic.com/ if you want to try aggregating twitter content from your feed.

Perfect! This will go well with our River of News RSS reader we launched yesterday: http://rivered.io

This is probably an older site, given that they list Google Reader as one of the options for consuming their RSS.

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