Warning! RSS from Twitter is unreliable. Do NOT assume you will see all tweets. For many purposes, a Twitter Widget might be a better solution.
How to create a feed manually:
Just put your username where the blank appears:
- http://twitter.com/favorites/_______.rss
- http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/_______.rss
For example:
- http://twitter.com/favorites/TweetSmarter.rss
- http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/TweetSmarter.rss
For search results, the RSS/Atom feeds can still be found here:
- http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=search%20term
- http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=search%20terms
Just change “search%20terms” to your search terms. (If you’re searching for more than one word, you need to put a “%20″ between each word.)
For hashtag searches, you need to put a “%23″ before the word. For example, if you’re searching for #love, the URLs would be
- http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=search%23love
- http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=search%23love
Here is one way of getting rss from a Twitter list: http://davidbcalhoun.com/2011/the-incredibly-painful-way-of-getting-an-rss-feed-of-a-twitter-list
One-click RSS creator from any browser:
Want to automatically find the RSS feed for any Twitter user? It’s easy! Drag this box: 
(HT Alex Chaffee.)
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Seems like twitter can be used as an seo tool
I am using Twitter past 2 months to optimize my software company website.
Although i am happy with the output,but want to be serious with twitter to get best from it…As i am newbie,can you please guide me with your ideas and experience,although i lied your ideas and give it a try…Waiting for your response!!
Thank You so much for this easy solution! Awesome info.
Thanks for sharing this with us .God bless you
It is handsome you can put some tweets in an Atom for sharing feeds!
FeedDude.com might also be worth checking out. It can convert twitter pages into RSS feeds.
I really really need a RSS feed into Google reader from >100 twitter users to keep track of industry trends. I dragged the one click RSS creator to the bookmark bar and it did create the RSS link for the user, but when I try to add it to Google reader, I get the “The feed being requested cannot be found” message. Any ideas to work around this?
BTW, thanks for the tool! Its what I need.
RSS from Twitter is unreliable, plain and simple. For reliable info, put everyone on a list and use the API (best)—tips to read it: http://davidbcalhoun.com/2011/the-incredibly-painful-way-of-getting-an-rss-feed-of-a-twitter-list Best suggestion: Pay a Twitter dev a small amount to set that up for you.
You could also look through some tools (http://bit.ly/mPF669 ) for this kind of functionality. Some of the more expensive ones will do what you want accurately…but they’re expensive.
Hi,
How does it work for the users’s lists ?
thanks
I haven’t tried it. Try it and let me know!
Very interesting! Thank you for the tip!
You’re very welcome
Sadly it won’t “suck” up the pictures from the links in tweets like flipboard does
By “IT” you must mean whatever reader you’re using, because the RSS feed is just data. The right reader will show the pictures.
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