Twitter has recently made it more difficult to subscribe to accounts via RSS. This article that goes into the details of the problem and offers a solution.
At least for now, you can construct a URL to a Twitter account RSS feed by starting with
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=
and appending the account name. For example,
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=divbyzero
is the RSS feed for Dave Richeson’s Twitter account @divbyzero.
The following table gives links to RSS feeds for each of my daily tip accounts.
| CompSciFact | RSS |
| ProbFact | RSS |
| UnixToolTip | RSS |
| SciPyTip | RSS |
| ShortcutKeyTip | RSS |
| RegexTip | RSS |
| AnalysisFact | RSS |
| AlgebraFact | RSS |
| TopologyFact | RSS |
| TeXtip | RSS |
| StatFact | RSS |
| GrokEM | RSS |
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Paul A. Rubin 05.18.11 at 09:56
Thanks. Having already subscribed to a few of your tip feeds (in Google Reader), I went to add the new RLangTip feed and couldn’t find an RSS button on the Twitter page. Thought I was having a “senior moment”.
For what it’s worth, Google Reader users can add Twitter feeds by clicking “Browse for stuff > Search > Stay connected to friends and family”, filling in the feed name and selecting Twitter in the combo box. (Does the “friends and family” part mean I need to send @RLangTip holiday cards?)
Student 05.18.11 at 16:07
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/rlangtip.rss also seems to work.
frank 05.19.11 at 09:10
Thanks. One day late though: I used commenter #2’s method yesterday for 3 or 4 of these.
Lora 05.23.11 at 16:46
Thanks!
Its always great to get a good workaround to these perplexing changes!
KJ 09.20.11 at 13:26
None of these methods are working for me in iGoogle. Previous ones that I subscribed to before the button went away still work though. They have the format:
https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/#######.rss, where ####### is some kind of key field for the user. If only I could figure out how to find that key for other twitter fees I want to subscribe to.James 11.12.11 at 02:41
Thanks John, saved me a lot of time head banging.
DS 01.31.12 at 10:47
Thanks for the tip – worked great!