[HOW-TO] Get the RSS Feed for A Twitter Account

[mcgoohan6]

In the past i had submitted my RSS feeds for some of my Twitter accounts to the RSS directories for some extra juice. Most of my blogs have twitter accounts that I feed posts to via Twitter Tools WP plugin.

But I hadn't realized that Twitter had pretty much abandoned the RSS functionality a few months ago.

I found this method at this site and it works not only for your own twitter accounts, but any other twitter account I tried it on.

http://seo-alien.com/tips-and-tricks/find-twitter-rss-feed/

To cut to the chase, here's what you need to do:

1. Have the twitter ID of the account you want to get the RSS feed for

2. Use the following code, but replace the "xxxxx" with the twitter ID

[COLOR=#990000][B]http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=xxxxx
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3. Use the RSS for whatever you can think of to do with it. I submitted my own to the directories, but I'm thinking of possible things to do with other users feeds for autoblogs or using them with TwitterFeed or Dlvr.it

 

[JackSparrow]

Just switch back to the old twitter and the link is at the bottom of your own tweets page.

Alternatively use:

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/[twittername].rss

 

[PlusOne]

Nice method and it is the first time I have seen this method. But isn't there a dedicated button inside twitter where it shows rss of the user? Great share anyway.

 

[mcgoohan6]

In the old days there was, and until Jack Sparrow pointed it out, I had all but forgotten, that you can still switch back to the old interface. Thanks Jack!

Other than setting up new accounts, I usually interact with TweetAttacks

 

[0_inspiration]

Well I like the tip! Old Twitter wont be around forever ~(allegedly ), so this technique willl come into it's own in time

 

[BlackHatRockstar]

BUMP! This no longer works, does anyone know a way to get an RSS feed from any Twitter account?

 

[mcgoohan6]

BUMP! This no longer works, does anyone know a way to get an RSS feed from any Twitter account?

I just tried it again on multiple accounts and it worked for me. I used two of my own accounts and Lady Gaga's account and I got the rss without any problem.

[B][COLOR=#990000][B]http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=xxxxx
[/B][/COLOR][/B]

 

[elvis1973]

yip works for me too

 

[BlackHatRockstar]

Thanks guys, I tried to add a feed like that to feedburner and just get an error message.

 

[Apposl]

Is there a new way to do this? I need to collect tweets via RSS and post on my own forum.

 

[dinkish]

It's still working, I just checked the link:


http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=xxxx