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It would be very strange indeed if someone had added a gaggle of Twitter RSS feeds to their daily Google Reader consumption. But RSS is as much a tool for deve
by mmahemoff 14y ago
It would be very strange indeed if someone had added a gaggle of Twitter RSS feeds to their daily Google Reader consumption.
But RSS is as much a tool for developers to syndicate content as it is for end-users their subscriptions. It's an open standard that thousands of libraries and services know how to hook into.
e.g. Even if Yahoo! Pipes or IFTTT didn't know anything about Twitter's API, you could still mash it up using RSS. Or if you're trying to write a client to stream Twitter in a language where there's no Twitter library, you can resort to a generic RSS library.
- CrazedGeek 14y agoI (and a few others I know) actually have a few Twitter feeds in Google Reader. It only takes a second to skim through them, and the ability to only see unread items is nice. No Twitter client that I've tried has done that, so RSS clients were the next best thing. Ah well.
- seltzered_ 14y agoI did that for a couple of slow-news-announcement twitter handles
- streptomycin 14y agoI have 3 Twitter RSS feeds in Google Reader. They are the only Twitter feeds I currently care about, and I'd rather see them with my other feeds than in some other website with a shitty UI. Google Reader also says the most popular Twitter RSS feed I have (~2 million followers) also has about 3000 other Google Reader subscribers. So we're probably talking about at least tens of thousands of people who do the same as me, if not more.
- ojiikun 14y agoI must be pretty strange . . . along with half the people I know. We follow a lot of twitter accounts (celebs, bloggers) in GReader or NewsBlur to keep our twitter feeds focused on real-life friends.