If you want to follow someone on Twitter without signing up to the service yourself, getting updates via RSS can be useful. Twitter’s December redesign got rid of the visible RSS feed option that used to be there, but you can still add individual Twitter streams to your news reader of choice.
Stackoverflow points out that the RSS address for any given Twitter user is in the following form:
https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/twittername.rss
So for Lifehacker’s Twitter feed, the address would be
https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/lif_au.rss
Handy if RSS is your prime way of keeping up with stuff.
RSS feeds in new Twitter [Stackoverflow]
Jon
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 3:32 PMVery minor nitpick…the name of the linked site is “Stack Overflow” (it’s my 2nd favourite site after Lifehacker) – source http://stackexchange.com/legal/trademark-guidance right near the bottom
scainburger
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 5:40 AMI should point out that the Twitter user you’re trying to subscribe to needs to un-tick “Protect my tweets” in their account options, otherwise this won’t work :)
Cody
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 12:57 PMThis isn’t working for me. I tried to subscribe to Tim Ferriss feed and It is giving me a page error in google reader. Please let me know how it can be resolved. Tim Ferriss id is tferriss.