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Nice idea. Related - Is there anything that can add the select number of Twitter accounts I want to follow to this Atom or RSS feed? Without exposing myself t
by benlumen 6y ago
Nice idea.
Related - Is there anything that can add the select number of Twitter accounts I want to follow to this Atom or RSS feed?
Without exposing myself to toxic replies, toxic suggested tweets and toxic trending topics? I've thought for years there should be something like that. Presumably it's a grey area with APIs or scraping.
- erikschoster 6y agoI follow a couple friends via the RSS feed created by nitter.net: https://nitter.net https://nitter.net
- filmgirlcw 6y agoI’m sure there's a way to do it but Twitter dropped RSS/Atom support from their API in 2012 [1], so it would require scraping or using some sort of other endpoint-managed control of the feed. There have historically been usage limits on how many tweets you could retrieve without paying, but I’m not sure how much that has changed since Twitter overhauled its API last year. It’s a shame that many of the tools and features we had a decade ago no longer exist, not because of technology, but because of decisions social networks made for business reasons to eschew open standards and create their own walled gardens. [1]: https://mashable.com/2012/09/05/twitter-api-rss/ https://mashable.com/2012/09/05/twitter-api-rss/
- Fogest 6y agoIt all comes down to ads. Twitter can't show ads so easily via API's. I think I even remember Twitter considering sticking ads in batches of tweets pulled from the API. Can't recall if they did it or not or if I'm misremembering.
- firloop 6y agoNewsblur does let you follow Twitter accounts; they have an API integration. Tweets from accounts you follow show up as stories in your reader.
- Ambroisie 6y agoI believe you can use Rss-bridge to follow Twitter users.
- ymolodtsov 6y agoA lot of various apps do that by connecting to the Twitter API. I read Twitter through Feedbin.