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Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero: How to make custom Twitter groups

  • Ryan Price · 1 year ago
    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.
  • trythiscolor · 1 year ago
    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?
  • RB · 1 year ago
    Nice post and has brought another "thing" to do on my list of things to do:)
  • Tim · 1 year ago
    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.
  • krystyn · 1 year ago
    @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.
  • silverwanderer · 5 months ago
    Found a problem. Select by 'usernameA' does give all Tweets by 'usernameA' in the Title, BUT also gives other Tweets uplodaed by other friends with '@usrenameA' in the Title. They are there because Twitter does that when user A sends a 'reply' to user B. Pity, as I find the Fetch Feeds difficult to identify individuals