Comments on: Twitter’s RSS feeds are broken, and will stay broken

By: ChRiiS

ChRiiS — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:49:06 +0000

Tiny RSS guys handle with it : https://github.com/gothfox/Tiny-Tiny-RSS/commit/57e24c82675e37ea9262e54e30836596caf77e76
Maybe it can inspire you 🙂
(PS: Sorry for my bad english :D)

By: chrisferoz

chrisferoz — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:25:01 +0000

I agree this is total RSS sabotage by Twitter. The only evidence you need for that is that they have NOTHING to say about this problem, which is concurrent with their new format. Even their HELP page is out of date and likely to stay that way. Purely another step towards “walled garden”. FAIL

By: Daniele Nicolucci

Daniele Nicolucci — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:21:15 +0000

In reply to Leif Harmsen. You, sir, nailed it.

By: Leif Harmsen

Leif Harmsen — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:11:45 +0000

The business folk at Twitter have MBAs. and as such the real riddle is why did they ever offer something as open and generic as RSS, when their buisness model is based on being yet another proprietary stitch-up, a walled garden, an absolutely free online disservice. I suspect it isn’t “broken” but self sabotaged. Breaking their own RSS was the fix for Twitter because it forces more people to get on twitter who otherwise would not have had to in order to get the feed they wanted. Broken RSS links also help create a myth that RSS isn’t reliable, when in fact it is Twitter that did it on purpose. They’ll claim it is a mistake, pretend to be trying to fix it, and maybe someday quietly drop it instead. They probably wish they’d never offered it.

By: Daniele Nicolucci

Daniele Nicolucci — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:29:49 +0000

In reply to wynz.

Exactly. Maybe it’s a way to make people use it more actively. I admit I have been going to twitter.com almost regularly since it stopped working, and I have found myself tweeting and replying more. (It’s also because I found nice new people to follow and interact with, though.)
The thing that bothers me is that you cannot set a marker to the latest message you found, so every time you go you end up wasting time figuring out what’s new and what’s not.

By: wynz

wynz — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:25:42 +0000

Good to know I’m not the only one frustrated by this whole switch. I’m in the same boat — I’m not an active Twitter user who posts a bunch and constantly monitors the stream. I just want to stay up-to-date with a few dozen users and RSS made that perfectly easy. Having the Twitter feed alongside my other RSS feeds fit perfectly into my workflow. I think we’re in the minority though, they don’t care about the ‘occasional’ users 🙁

By: Daniele Nicolucci

Daniele Nicolucci — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:25:41 +0000

In reply to Callum.

LOL that’s ok, I don’t really use hashtags as I never know what words would be worth tagging, but sure. I’m going to retweet a link to this thing with #rssagain. Given Twitter’s forced (and entirely unneeded, if you ask me) conciseness, the shorter the better.
As for the comments, you can temporarily subscribe to this post’s comment feed by simply appending “/feed” at the end of the URL, or using the relevant feed as shown by your browser (with Safari I can access the list by clicking and holding on the ‘Reader’ label in the address bar.)
Speaking of which, that’s a peculiar e-mail address you typed in. Do you use a catch-all mailbox or do you actually make specific mailboxes on purpose? I need to do something like that for my clients, as I often end up subscribing to things like antivirus services for them and I’d rather handle the whole thing personally rather than have them check their e-mail and get them confused about serial numbers. (Sigh.)

By: Callum

Callum — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:17:48 +0000

I agree. Can we start some kind of hashtag campaign to encourage twitter to realise the stupidity of this action and fix it? How about #giveusbackrss or #wewantrss or #rssagain…

What do you reckon? Shall we start a revolution? 🙂

PS> Can you shoot me an email if there are any relevant replies to this thread? Otherwise I’d likely miss them… 🙁