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spatchTechnology is fun as long as you know how to use it or how to twist it for your own nefarious purposes. I believe I have accomplished the latter with this thing the kids called Twitter, and suddenly we find Red Shift, his crew and even some of his nemeses (arch and otherwise) yammering on to each other and it's all very funny indeed.
The thing is, it would be nice to consolidate all the Twitter accounts (there's seven at last count) into one RSS feed which can then be syndicated on an LJ feed so that everybody can just put them on their friends list and snicker at the goings-on. Ideally the gang would also start responding to listener questions and stuff, but we're taking it one step at a time here.
So with that in mind, does anybody know of a simple way to consolidate several Twitter feeds into one? A nice aggregator would be just the thing.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fancycwabs has made an RS_Followbot account which just follows the main characters, but I can't seem to find a way to grab an RSS feed of the followed accounts (and there may be interpersonal reasons why that's not quite possible now.)
Bonus points if you don't have to tag the posts as well because that just cuts into the 140-character limit and buddy, it takes work putting comedy into only 140 characters. Unless you're Dr. Alberts, who doesn't seem to have figured out yet that he keeps going over the limit and ending his messages prematurely.
No, I won't use the damn service personally, but for fictitious characters in a crazy made-up universe, it's ideal and rather appropriate. For one, neither Twitter nor the Do-Gooders themselves have a decent working business model.
OH SNAP
The thing is, it would be nice to consolidate all the Twitter accounts (there's seven at last count) into one RSS feed which can then be syndicated on an LJ feed so that everybody can just put them on their friends list and snicker at the goings-on. Ideally the gang would also start responding to listener questions and stuff, but we're taking it one step at a time here.
So with that in mind, does anybody know of a simple way to consolidate several Twitter feeds into one? A nice aggregator would be just the thing.
fancycwabs has made an RS_Followbot account which just follows the main characters, but I can't seem to find a way to grab an RSS feed of the followed accounts (and there may be interpersonal reasons why that's not quite possible now.) Bonus points if you don't have to tag the posts as well because that just cuts into the 140-character limit and buddy, it takes work putting comedy into only 140 characters. Unless you're Dr. Alberts, who doesn't seem to have figured out yet that he keeps going over the limit and ending his messages prematurely.
No, I won't use the damn service personally, but for fictitious characters in a crazy made-up universe, it's ideal and rather appropriate. For one, neither Twitter nor the Do-Gooders themselves have a decent working business model.
OH SNAP
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Date: 2009-01-23 03:36 pm (UTC)You USED to be able to view something like http://twitter.com/fancycwabs/with_friends but now all that does is list all of your friends, instead of everything my friend and I are talking about.
Okay. I created Red Shift as an "imaginary friend" on FriendFeed comprised of all the twitter feeds from the Red Shift crew. It APPEARS to be a compendium of everybody's Twitter activity consolidated, with its own RSS feed. Check it out here. Will that work?
EDIT: Apparently not. It lists what's being said, but not the source. Dammit.
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Date: 2009-01-23 04:40 pm (UTC)I was not allowed to view the FriendFeed you made, but judging from the edit, perhaps I won't need to. Yahoo's got some kind of crazy-ass aggregate editor called Pipes which seems to do what I want, but it's so shiny and GUI-like that I can't help but know that there's an easier way to do it.
During Arisia, all posts tagged were picked up by a nice aggregate (in my day, we called it 'grep') and shunted over to one account. It seems easy enough to accomplish, but the question is now whether or not I can just get some service to do it for me, or if I'm going to have to roll my own.
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Date: 2009-01-23 04:53 pm (UTC)I don't know if you can view the RSS feed without permission, but the atom feed is here.
Incidentally, I never quite completely understood your objections to Twitter, beyond obstinacy. Yeah, its "what are you doing" premise sucks, but in practice (among the folks I follow) it's a combination of a constant stream of pretty-good-to-great one-liners and local useful information. And you would be a GOD on the best-of-Twitter site favrd.
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Date: 2009-01-23 05:01 pm (UTC)comments don't count
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Date: 2009-01-23 09:35 pm (UTC)