Filtering the Twitter cafe murmur with FeedRinse
So Twitter is nice to have in the background bumbling away but like many programmers I am paranoid I will miss something (admit it all you programmers; you read every single RSS item, every single email and anything that scrolls too fast to read completely is annoying as fek. Programmers want 100% solutions, not 80% or 99.999% solutions.)
Thankfully your Twitter stream comes in RSS (actually, atom) too and you can use a simple feed keyword filter system like FeedRinse to catch any tweets/twits you miss. Here is one I made on my Twitter stream that looks for “@paul” which is how it seems most of my Twitter buddies ping messages at each other.
Simple and Twitter didn’t have to provide the functionality. Yahoo! Pipes could provide an even more complex Twitter filter setup.
March 7th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
So… Now you’re in the cafe listening intently for your name to come up in conversation… ;-P
FeedRinse looks useful though.
March 7th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
hehe, I sure can Shog. The idea though is that for those times I have Twitter off I can come back to an RSS feed at the end of the day and note any Tweets aimed at me that I missed.
March 7th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
>>Twitter … Tweets…
Nibbler: Sometimes I fear we are cute.
Fiona: Oh, niggle-snoosh.
;-)
March 8th, 2007 at 4:16 am
Thanks for the Feed Rinse mention - good stuff. I assumed I was the only one using it to reign in outa control Twittering.
March 8th, 2007 at 4:29 am
[…] Is it plus or versus? I’m not sure. But until a few minutes ago, I thought I was the only one using Feed Rinse to keep Twitter in line. I’m not. Nothing against Twitter, I just have a low tolerance wildly chaotic / mindless chatter flying at me in text form. Technorati Tags: Feed Rinse Tags: Feed Rinse | […]
March 15th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
[…] Today I was searching around and paulmwatson.com came up with a solution to my problem. I thought i’d share it with you in howto format: […]
March 16th, 2007 at 2:37 am
[…] Here’s the thing, twitter has this thing called RSS. And you know what that means, twitter can be feed rinsed by feed rinse. Jason Tucker has recently how-to’ed the process on his blog. Paul Watson blogged about it previously as well. I thought I was the only one. Technorati Tags: twitter […]
March 16th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
You could even filter it at ZapTxt or Rasasa and have the feed delivered as SMS or IM:
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2007/03/03/get-blog-updates-on-your-mobile-phone-im-email-sms-audio-web/