Written by me@grafxflow
10 Oct, 2012
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Quick Note: (UPDATED 05 MARCH 2013) This RSS url will cease working in March 2013! So I suggest NOT using this RSS feed url. I am now using the Twitter API1.1 so therefore my old RSS feed was last working on the 01 March 2013. Read this new article about Adding a Twitter feed APP to WordPress.
The problem which I had with my twitter RSS feed was that it suddenly stopped working. So after searching around on the web... here is the solution I found.
If you have used:
https://twitter.com/favorites/TWITTER_USERNAME.rss
or
https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/TWITTER_USERNAME.rss
You now need to use:
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=TWITTER_USERNAME
Or if you have a twitter name which has an underscore (_) use:
(Thanks to claneksi for this snippet of code)
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?user_id=TWITTER_ID
See comments below for how to find your TWITTER_ID.
If you do have a php script (See this code) it would be best you backup the RSS feed to another file on your server based on a schedule, such as every 10 minutes. The reason being that twitter does limit the amount of times the RSS feed can be read per hour based on your website IP. If you don't twitter that often it might be worth setting the schedule to an hour.
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Doug
11 Oct 2012Marcelo Kallocsaih
11 Oct 2012Benjamin Hansen
11 Oct 2012claneksi
12 Oct 2012Also for those who prefer to use user id numbers instead of screen name can use this.
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?user_id=TWITTER_ID
me@grafxflow
12 Oct 2012Thanks for that. Another one to add to the list.
Angilee
15 Oct 2012me@grafxflow
15 Oct 2012http://api.twitter.com/1/AUTHOR/lists/TWITTER-LIST/statuses.atom
wow
18 Oct 2012Vivi
18 Oct 2012Juan
19 Oct 2012Hansie
22 Oct 2012sjay
28 Oct 2012me@grafxflow
29 Oct 2012http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?user_id=TWITTER_ID
Find the id with the following.
mytwitterid.com/
sjay
30 Oct 2012b00ms3r
30 Oct 2012Scott
20 Nov 2012Annette With Windward
08 Jan 2013me@grafxflow
08 Jan 2013Cory
31 Jan 2013me@grafxflow
31 Jan 2013jon
07 Mar 2013The only way I can stomach twitter is within my old, beloved snarfer rss reader. I hope there's a way to continue the twitter to rss conversion - thanks!
me@grafxflow
07 Mar 2013Mr Japanese
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