Twitter never made it easy to follow people, lists or searches over RSS feed. In every case I had to search and try out various approaches to find those that work.
Well, I’m finally able to follow all things Twitter in Google Reader and it just makes one less network to visit. It is sad to witness social networks obscuring their feeds in attempt to drag you in. I can only hope it doesn’t become too ridiculous …
Anyway, Twitter feeds for users, lists and searches are shown below. Hope you find them useful.
User feed
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/[user-name].rsshttp://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/[user-id].rsstwitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/hackernewsbot.rss(preview)- API Reference
"user-name" is how user normally appears on twitter and "user-id" is its numerical ID which can be found using this application. You can choose either of those.
List feed
http://api.twitter.com/1/[user-name]/lists/[list-name]/statuses.atomapi.twitter.com/1/evgeny_goldin/lists/devops/statuses.atom(preview)- API Reference
Search feed
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=[query]http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23[query](#query)http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%40[query](@query)search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%40TeamCity(preview)- API Reference
JetBrains feeds
- Atom feed of my “jetbrains” list – all JetBrains tweets from projects and people (preview)
- Projects blogs and updates feed (preview)
- Employees personal blogs feed (preview)
Chrome keyword searches
| Twitter user: |
"tw"
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"http://twitter.com/#!/%s"
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| Twitter list: |
"tl"
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"http://twitter.com/#!/evgeny_goldin/%s"
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| Twitter search: |
"ts"
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"http://twitter.com/#!/search/%s"
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| Google Reader: |
"gr"
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"http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/%s"
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Twitter-related keyword searches go a long way to make life easier! Using searches shown above I can type "tw youtrack", "tl devops", and "ts anything" to read @YouTrack tweets, my “devops” list or search Twitter for “anything”. And "gr url" loads the feed url into Google Reader.
References
It wouldn’t be possible without the following posts whose authors made the effort of digging out this useful information. Thank you!
