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Twitter within GoogleReader
Let’s say immediatly there is no miracle solution and it required a bit of work…
If the title is not explicit enough, the goal of this post is to give a way to include Twitter flow within your GoogleReader. IMHO, the main features of GoogleReader over regular Twitter are the following:
- posts are stored on long term
- posts can be searched or filtered by keywords
- easy integration with Google Plus share button
- ability to give a priority to feeds (as in Google Plus’s circles)
- a simple interface to monitor all feeds
Unlike, following Twitter accounts on Google Reader (or even any other RSS aggregator) makes you lose the real time feature of Twitter.
This said, how to include your Twitter follow list within Google Reader syndication?
- For each of the accounts you follow on Twitter, get the userId.
- The easiest is to select a tweet > right click > source code > search the attribute “data-user-id”, get the associated number, eg: 813286 for @BarackObama, 50055701 for @MittRomney and 248309482 for my prefered one: @John_the_Cowboy ;-).
- Alternatively, you can request the following service: http://www.idfromuser.com
- In Google Reader, add a feed:
https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/XYZ.rss. Replace “XYZ” with the actual number retrieved before
Of course, this is not easy at all, as said in the disclaimer above. It is long, takes much time, and can become fastidious if you follow tens of people. Anyway, Google Reader users are geeks rather than newbies. You may create a Groovy script of setup a Mule instance to automatize de process ;-).
I suggest you to create one or many folders to gather the Twitter feeds.