How to RSS Twitter feeds in one line

Keeping up with what’s happening on Twitter is hard. There is so much flying past these days, it’s easy to miss the good stuff. Thankfully, people are using hashtags, which helps. The problem is that you still don’t have time to scroll though the gazillion tweets with the hashtag still. There are plenty of online services to help, but this also means joining something and logging in. All too hard if you’re a bit old school like me, and just like to live of RSS feeds. So here’s a tip on how to get RSS feeds with one line. All you do is paste it into the browser and add to your favourite feed engine.

http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=gbl

There you go, I said was easy. All you do is change the term following the ‘equals’ sign and off you go. Now you can feed that to all your fave graphical readers.

If that didn’t freak you out – how about RSS yourself? – Head to http://idfromuser.org/ and find your Twitter ID number (or that of your nemesis), then you will have your RSS feed, like this.

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/9593882.rss

The other way to do this is to use Google Reader directly. But that assumes you are using Google Reader.