Subscribe Someones Timeline, Twitter Updates-Tweets via RSS Feed
After Twitter updated their design and introduced OAuth, they removed the RSS feed icon from the user profiles which makes it difficult for followers to subscribe to a person’s twitter timeline via any RSS feed reader.
Getting someone’s twitter updates via RSS feed is an useful option if you are not much into twitter and yet you want to follow someone’s daily updates he/she posts on his twitter account.
How to Subscribe Twitter Tweets, Updates from a Person via RSS
Although twitter removed the RSS feed icons on the design but the RSS feed feature still works. Simply enter the twitter username of the account you want to follow via RSS in the form below and click "Get RSS link" button.
Once you get the RSS feed link above, simply copy the link and add it to any desktop feed readers you’re using (Doesn’t work with Google Reader). The next time the user posts any update/tweet you will be able to read it via your RSS reader.
How it Works : Although Twitter removed the RSS feed support on their site but their basic feed system still works. Just access the URL below…
Example URL : http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/snaphow.rss
Simply change the username ‘snaphow‘ to any other username and the resulting url should pull the latest tweets from that user via RSS (.atom works too).
This may not be of much use if you are active on twitter, but since I don’t use twitter much I find it very useful to follow people this way.
Another useful tip would be to merge multiple RSS feeds into one single feed and then subscribe to it. This way you can create a list of rss feeds of the twitter accounts you want to follow using the technique above and then merge them into a single feed you can follow via your RSS reader.
In case if you want read all tweets on your timeline without logging into twitter directly your reader you can generate a RSS feed with OAuth using an online an online app. called Twitter2RSS (link) which translates all the tweets from the people you’re following into a RSS feed so you can read them from you reader.
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dan : Hi google ig and google reader need the twitters number id. To get this go to http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=yy#directory-page/1 and then scroll down to where it says find family and friends. select twitter and add the twitter account name. next go to manage subscriptions to view the id #. for example cnn is 759251 http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/cnn.rss <-does not work in google reader http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/759251.rss <-does work in google reader
Debajyoti : @dan: Well I checked... it works fine with the usernames too... using the process mentiioned above.
dan : @debajyoti it works for all other rss readers except google reader. The onyl way to get it to work with google reader is my way. The original article even states " (Doesn’t work with Google Reader)."
Debajyoti : @dan: You are right it doesn't work with GReader. But its works fine in desktops readers like I use Feeddemon... Btw, here is an useful tool to find ID from twitter user http://www.idfromuser.com/
Dan : Silly me there is even a easier way.In google reader click "add a subscription" button near top left. Enter the twitter username. eg. CNN Boom the link gets created using the numbered id.
Jayemen : FYI: Looks like www.idfromuser.com isn't working anymore.
Debajyoti : @Jayemen: Thnks for the update. Too bad. But I see that Google Reader works perfect like mentioned in the comments above
Vicky : Twitter RSS feeds no longer works. :-( The link I had that was working is http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/46576295.rss and it just stopped working a couple days ago. I tried replacing the ID number with the username as your link shows, and that didn't work either. :-( Any ideas for a new way to make it work???
dan : Vicky what is the user id or twitter id?
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