A few weeks ago, I received an email from Twitterfeed’s founder, a chap called Mario. In unnecessarily jolly prose, it announced the demise of the service which turned RSS feeds into Tweets and recommended moving to dlvr.it or Buffer. We’re writing to let you know that Twitterfeed wi …

One of the things that people often ask me to add to TwitRSS.me is support for generating an RSS feed from a Twitter search. In fact some of the code that I originally used to build it was targetted at achieving exactly that objective. I am now working 90% time at my day job, so I had a rare after …

Making a service that lots of people use is always an interesting thing to do. And sometimes and exciting experience too. This month has been especially exciting for TwitRSS.me one way and another. Here is a quick roundup of some of what has been occuring.The bi …

When I last posted anything about TwitRSS.me, I was complaining that I was getting a million requests a month. I am now getting over 2 million requests a day. Today I am pubicly announcing a (very alpha) Javascript version in the hope that it will help some of the thousands of folk using TwitRSS.m …

Earlier today, a TwitRSS.me user, @pur_wie asked me if there was a way to get follower counts from Twitter.@ciderpunx Thanks for twitRSS.me. It works great in getting tweet texts.Is it possible to get the count,num of followers/followees?— Pur (@pur_wie) June 7, 2014Depending on your …

I was having a conversation the other day with oxguin and nor, the gist of which was that it would funny to invent a conspiracy theory generator. Regular readers will know that I have been playing around with Haskell for a while, so I figured I would bosh one up in that. At some point. Well, it i …

Ages ago I made a little form that made it easier to get your twitter feed as an RSS. It just called the Twitter API and it was slightly useful for a few people, which was great. However, Twitter killed their old API and broke various things I’d made that pulled RSS feeds of user streams. …

Twitter recently got rid of the ability to get search results as an RSS as part of their API update of 11 June 2013.

I found those feeds rather useful, so I made a little screen scraper that reimplements the functionality without needing to auth against their API (it just pulls the re …

This is a neat trick. A friend was looking for a convenient way to tweet (or send to statusnet) from Bash, this is a fairly straightforward way to do that.

There are a couple of bits you need before we play with the script. You’ll need cURL installed, many Unices do this by de …

Update: Now this uses my new TwitRSS.me tool. Please donate and keep TwitRSS.me online.User: With replies?:   Love it or loathe it, it looks like Twitter is likely to remain an important part of the infrastructure of the interwebs for some time. Bac …

TwitterHaiku lets you find a haiku-like tweet. That is to say that it finds 17 syllable tweets from the Twitter search API …