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I use the Feedbro RSS reader which can subscribe to twitter accounts as RSS feeds. It gives you what you want: Every unread post highlighted for each account, a

I use the Feedbro RSS reader which can subscribe to twitter accounts as RSS feeds. It gives you what you want: Every unread post highlighted for each account, and you don't even need a twitter account. The Nitter fronted supports RSS feeds directly so you can use any RSS reader, and never need to even connect to twitter.com. For example this is Carmack's RSS feed: https://nitter.net/ID_AA_Carmack/rss https://nitter.net/ID_AA_Carmack/rss

IronWolve 4y ago
RSS is awesome to take back control. I used RSS in facebook and youtube to get unfiltered timeline views. I used RSS with IFTTT to scrape sites to create feeds. Works great, but the time to add each RSS was the only downside. Was easier to write a loop script to feed it a list and have it grab rss feeds for each user. Podcasts are just rss feeds too.
kethinov 4y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I just tried it out. Nitter + an RSS app like Vienna is a neat solution for replacing Twitterrific on desktop. The UX isn't as good, particularly with quote tweets just showing up as links instead of embedded in context. Also I had to write a quick browser hack so if I open a tweet from the RSS reader to Nitter it will make it so there is a link to the original Tweet from Nitter so I can actually interact with the tweet (like, reply, etc). But it works, it lets me see things chronologically, and it tracks which are read and unread. Thanks!
- WithinReason 4y ago
  Feedbro shows the tweet quoted as well. It's also the best RSS reader I've found.
  - kethinov 4y ago
    Have you run into problems with nitter.net rate-limiting you? I added about 60 subscriptions and they frequently don't load. I suspect I'm probably overusing the service... Edit: looks like this could be a good solution: https://twiiit.com https://twiiit.com
    - WithinReason 4y ago
      I also use this add-on that redirects you to a random Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... You might need to manually remove the ones that don't work. It's still better than using the Twitter website :)
      - kethinov 4y ago
        For sure. This setup is hacky as hell but it works well, so I'm sticking with it. :)

IronWolve 4y ago

RSS is awesome to take back control. I used RSS in facebook and youtube to get unfiltered timeline views. I used RSS with IFTTT to scrape sites to create feeds. Works great, but the time to add each RSS was the only downside. Was easier to write a loop script to feed it a list and have it grab rss feeds for each user. Podcasts are just rss feeds too.

kethinov 4y ago

Thanks for the recommendation. I just tried it out. Nitter + an RSS app like Vienna is a neat solution for replacing Twitterrific on desktop. The UX isn't as good, particularly with quote tweets just showing up as links instead of embedded in context. Also I had to write a quick browser hack so if I open a tweet from the RSS reader to Nitter it will make it so there is a link to the original Tweet from Nitter so I can actually interact with the tweet (like, reply, etc). But it works, it lets me see things chronologically, and it tracks which are read and unread. Thanks!

WithinReason 4y ago
Feedbro shows the tweet quoted as well. It's also the best RSS reader I've found.
- kethinov 4y ago
  Have you run into problems with nitter.net rate-limiting you? I added about 60 subscriptions and they frequently don't load. I suspect I'm probably overusing the service... Edit: looks like this could be a good solution: https://twiiit.com https://twiiit.com
  - WithinReason 4y ago
    I also use this add-on that redirects you to a random Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... You might need to manually remove the ones that don't work. It's still better than using the Twitter website :)
    - kethinov 4y ago
      For sure. This setup is hacky as hell but it works well, so I'm sticking with it. :)