Twitter has removed most of its RSS feed links from its site over the past year. But fear not, it is still possible to generate Twitter RSS feeds. [Update – We’ll for now there is, Twitter has announced that it plans on removing all RSS support from March 2013, read more here.]
We’ve covered how to manually generate Twitter RSS feeds for users’ profiles, how to generate a Twitter list RSS feed, and how to create a Twitter search RSS feed earlier.
To make things easier we have created these forms which will generate Twitter RSS feeds for profiles, Twitter lists, and searches.
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That Twitter Search RSS feed creator - genuinely brilliant. Took me an hour to find it, but nothing else out there that I know of to do this anything like so easily - THANKS!
@Kate at Rose McGrory Social Media Thanks, we've, literally, just done a small update.
That Twitter Search RSS feed creator - genuinely brilliant. Took me an hour to find it, but nothing else out there that I know of to do this anything like so easily - THANKS!
@Kate at Rose McGrory Social Media Thanks, we've, literally, just done a small update.
Love the idea of what you are doing here....with the custom RSS feed generation for Twitter, however currently the Twitter searches you are generating here are not working for me in Google Reader. I guess Twitter might have moved the goal posts again. If you are successful or if anyone is successful in getting custom RSS searches from this form into Google Reader, please let me know. Thanks!!!
Love the idea of what you are doing here....with the custom RSS feed generation for Twitter, however currently the Twitter searches you are generating here are not working for me in Google Reader. I guess Twitter might have moved the goal posts again. If you are successful or if anyone is successful in getting custom RSS searches from this form into Google Reader, please let me know. Thanks!!!
@JonReedGoesOff
Thanks Jon,
That sometimes happens (we think it might have something to do with Twitter’s API seeing Google Reader as a client making too many calls).
These tricks sometimes work for us
1) Install Chrome's official RSS reader extension which should allow you to direct the feed to reader.
2) Use Firefox's RSS page to directly open in Reader.
3) Change .rss in the fee URL to .atom (interestingly atom feeds have more entries than rss).
3) Sign into Feedburner and convert the feed --To do this add the feed to Feedburner then click on Optimize > Convert Format Burner (at the bottom). This will let you convert the feed from atom to RSS or vice versa.
4) If all else fails try again in a few hours (possibly when the Twitter calls limit resets) - it might sound like a cop-out but it has worked for us.
Let us know if any of these work for you.
I'm having the same issue as Jon. I use Firefox, so I tried options 2 and 3 without any success. Google Reader keeps coming back with "The feed being requested cannot be found."
@lea724 Hi, I'd try it again in a few hours but in the meantime can you convert the feed in Feedburner?Pop us the link, I'll see if I can have a look.
This is the link I'm trying to get the RSS feed for: http://twitter.com/#!/rabbirubinger
When I put the twitter URL in Feedburner, I get the following error: "The URL does not appear to reference a valid XML file. We encountered the following problem: Error on line 25: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference."
When I put the .rss URL (http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/378223934.rss) in Feedburner, I get the following error: "Received HTTP error: "Bad Request" while fetching source feed."
Any help is appreciated. :)
Well, it seems to be working for me now. I used the .rss URL above, and put it into Google Calendar and suddenly everything worked. Very strange that it wasn't working before, but I'm glad it's working now.
@JonReedGoesOff
Thanks Jon,
That sometimes happens (we think it might have something to do with Twitter’s API seeing Google Reader as a client making too many calls).
These tricks sometimes work for us
1) Install Chrome's official RSS reader extension which should allow you to direct the feed to reader.
2) Use Firefox's RSS page to directly open in Reader.
3) Change .rss in the fee URL to .atom (interestingly atom feeds have more entries than rss).
3) Sign into Feedburner and convert the feed --To do this add the feed to Feedburner then click on Optimize > Convert Format Burner (at the bottom). This will let you convert the feed from atom to RSS or vice versa.
4) If all else fails try again in a few hours (possibly when the Twitter calls limit resets) - it might sound like a cop-out but it has worked for us.
Let us know if any of these work for you.
I'm having the same issue as Jon. I use Firefox, so I tried options 2 and 3 without any success. Google Reader keeps coming back with "The feed being requested cannot be found."
@lea724 Hi, I'd try it again in a few hours but in the meantime can you convert the feed in Feedburner?Pop us the link, I'll see if I can have a look.
This is the link I'm trying to get the RSS feed for: http://twitter.com/#!/rabbirubinger
When I put the twitter URL in Feedburner, I get the following error: "The URL does not appear to reference a valid XML file. We encountered the following problem: Error on line 25: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference."
When I put the .rss URL (http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/378223934.rss) in Feedburner, I get the following error: "Received HTTP error: "Bad Request" while fetching source feed."
Any help is appreciated. :)
Well, it seems to be working for me now. I used the .rss URL above, and put it into Google Calendar and suddenly everything worked. Very strange that it wasn't working before, but I'm glad it's working now.
Thank you. For some reason Google Reader doesn't like the url but I put the same link into Pulse Reader and it's working brilliantly.
Hi @A1 , @JonReedGoesOff had a similar problem below, http://j.mp/pxlJ2Y do any of these work for you?
Thank you. For some reason Google Reader doesn't like the url but I put the same link into Pulse Reader and it's working brilliantly.
Hi @A1 , @JonReedGoesOff had a similar problem below, http://j.mp/pxlJ2Y do any of these work for you?
Do I need to have a public feed? A public list? I've always kept it all private. I used to be able to get rss into Thunderbird by putting in my twitter rss link and then entering my username and password. Now when I try your feed & list generators and click on your link, I get a new tab in Firefox, which is ... blank. Thanks.
Hi @Arg I haven't tested this on private accounts but I would say that you would need a public account. There may be a way of setting it up using the API but this would be more complicated.
Do I need to have a public feed? A public list? I've always kept it all private. I used to be able to get rss into Thunderbird by putting in my twitter rss link and then entering my username and password. Now when I try your feed & list generators and click on your link, I get a new tab in Firefox, which is ... blank. Thanks.
Hi @Arg I haven't tested this on private accounts but I would say that you would need a public account. There may be a way of setting it up using the API but this would be more complicated.