Twitter has removed most of its RSS feed links from its site over the
past 2010-2011 years. But it is still possible to generate Twitter RSS
feeds.
"Since redesigning its site Twitter has been accused of killing its previously open ecosystem. The focus of the accusations comes from Twitter’s removal of RSS feeds on each user’s profile. Twitter has said this is a design glitch that will be fixed but until that happens, if it ever will, there still are ways to get access a Twitter user’s RSS feed."
Previously if you visited a Twitter profile you are interested in (a pop-star's twit or the latest event's one)
you could subscribe to a feed of that account’s tweets and favourite’d
messages using RSS. Now Twitter only gives access to the user’s favourite’d
messages.
So, what do you do if you want to subscribe to that user’s
tweets?
Well, there's still 1 method how to do that. If you want to subscribe
directly to a user’s Twitter feed you need to do a small bit
of hacking=) Seems interesting, isn't it?=)
A standard Twitter user’s RSS feed looks like this;
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/XXX.rss
The XXX is an ID unique to each Twitter account. To get your, or any
Twitter user’s, RSS URL you should replace the XXX with their ID
number.
There are a number of sites that can show you a user’s id, such as idfromuser.com, which will reveal a user’s ID from their Twitter username. I made a screenshot 4 you to see how it looks like:
So, using this the Sociable’s Twitter url is:
If you want to subscribe to Justin Bieber’s RSS feed (DO NOT EVEN TRY TO DO THIS!!!!!!) you can use this address:
By the way, you may be interested in RSSSpecifications Twitter user that provides all the RSS lovers with fresh info. Look when you have some time.
THE CONCLUSION:
That's the last my post on this blog ever. Chrystyna would say ПІЧАЛЬКА in this case=) I am 100 % sure=)
What can I say? I tried to do my best to post smth really important and not complicated 4 you to read. Hope somebody appreciated that=) But whatever happens this blog is always waiting 4 its lovers.
