OPML twitter export - with friends tab and feeds
Recently we made a change to remove the With Friends tab from user profiles. We did this after finding out that this tab was both a relatively rarely accessed as well as computationally expensive page for us to serve.
At the same time we removed access to the feeds for this page. It’s still possible for users to receive their own With Friends timelines, but authentication is required. What we did not anticipate was that some users were subscribing to these feeds in readers. Most readers do not support authentication, so the feeds that these folks were subscribing have since broken.
Here’s a quick hack to import individual twitter RSS feeds into Google Reader (which is one of those feed readers that don’t support HTTP auth).
Create twitter OPML - select the text in the pink textbox and save as a file to import from. This might well prompt you for your twitter details and probably won’t work in your feed reader ironically enough…
