This afternoon I was reading a post on staynalive.com (via), discussing how Twitter and Facebook have silently killed off their linkage to a profiles RSS feed. The feeds are still active (at least, the ones I'm subscribed to are) but any reference to them have been removed. Because I'm still somewhat of a Twitter-is-shit person, and enjoy the ability to subscribe to a users entire stream via RSS, I investigated a work-around. The best I could come up with is finding your own RSS feed:
- Log into your account and (e.g. http://www.twitter.com/YGoblin)
- View the source of your "Home" page (actually, this will work no matter what page or profile you're viewing, once you're logged in).
- Search for "rss".
- You'll find a URL for your "favorites" RSS feed (i.e. http://twitter.com/favorites/147643216.rss)
- Simply subsitute the "favorites" part of that URL with "statuses/user_timeline" (i.e. http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/42198704.rss)
- Share the RSS feed with people who are, or are not, using Twitter.
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This hidden "rss" appears to have gone away. You also need to know what your numeric UID is in order for this to work. Any clues on how to find these?
Yep, just checked now. Twitter has removed the reference to that favorites RSS in pages, since posting this (and I can only assume it's directly because of this post). Unless there's an algorithm that can be devised to find a users UID, we're out of luck!
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