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How to make custom Twitter groups

Started by Christopher S. Penn · 10 months ago

See that RSS link at the bottom of your Twitter page? Copy it.
Head over to Yahoo Pipes.
Start a new pipe. Paste in the URL of your RSS as a Fetch pipe.
Add a filter pipe. Put the real names of the people you need to follow most as part of the title, or if you only [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • I can't believe nobody has included a link to 30boxes' excellent tool that does this without knowing Yahoo Pipes. I don't work for them or anything, I just love their services.

    http://m.30boxes.com/twapper

    It's designed to be viewed from a mobile browser, but works really well in a desktop browser. Just throw in the names of up to 6 friends (I think, I've never done more than 4) and it gives you a page you can bookmark right away. The usernames are passed in the URL, so it's very flexible.
  • Christopher, your idea sounds great! However, when I went to view your sample, the result said "No pipe results for Twitter filter."

    Is this a twitter issue, or a Yahoo pipes issue?
  • Nice post and has brought another "thing" to do on my list of things to do:)
  • the "with friends" RSS feed is no longer provided by Twitter:
    http://status.twitter.com/post/37217014/with-fr...

    So this will no longer work.

    I wanted to create a custom Twitter group to aggregate all of the NASA mission tweets:
    http://pipes.yahoo.com/timbond/twitter_group

    This is my first attempt at Pipes, so this sample isn't finished.
  • @Tim: The RSS link is still at the bottom of my page, maybe they're supporting it again?

    BUT.

    Requires username and password. Couldn't figure how to add that in pipes, unfortunately.

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