It’s very easy to miss updates in twitter due to the amount of stuff that keeps coming in; and it is just a pain to read your friends’ random jokes, your colleagues rants and world news all intermixed in a single stream.
People keep bragging about this and Facebook (not Twitter) did listen and reacted! but there’s a very Zen ‘act-without-doing’ solution, you don’t need to install an extra twitter client, nor to share your twitter password with yet another site; actually you don’t even need to have a Twitter account, nor to follow people explicitly!
Just notice that each user page (http://twitter.com/username) generates an rss feed, then:
- Aggregate users rss’ in groups/labels as you like in your preferred rss reader
- done! click your personal labels and read threaded twitter discussions
Bonus: this also works with the feeds created by twitterSearch (i.e. keywords monitoring), with other users’ favourites pages and on and on.
Just took all your suggestions and slapped a few twitter RSS feeds into Google Reader. Very cool. Thanks for the tip.