twitter2rss: Turn Friends into Feeds

A New Twitter Tool:

This past weekend I worked on a new project idea I had stored in the back of my mind.  The project "twitter2rss" allows you to generate an OPML RSS feed list of all of the friends, for a particular twitter account.  In other words, you give it the username of a twitter user, and it gives you a list you can import into your feed reader.  The project is nothing elaborate, it is not supposed to be.  It is just a simple tool that allows you to create a feed list.

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or (hopefully not) complaints, leave them in the comments.

Why:

There are a few known use cases (based on my own uses, and that of a few friends).

• RSS Feed Reader does not allow authenticated feeds (quickest way to get the "home" feed - an example Google Reader)
• Twitter is blocked from the location, but you still wish to obtain the feed data through a web based reader
• You are not a Twitter member, but wish to follow someone else's friends (lurkers)

I am sure there are other cases this tool may be useful, leave your own uses in the comments if you'd like.


Project Description:

twitter2rss will obtain all friends of a specified twitter account, and then create an OPML feed list. The feed list will contain all of the obtained friend's twitter RSS feeds, which can then be imported into any standard feed reader.

Project Links:

Project Page:  http://twitter2rss.sf.net (Just the default Source Forge Project Page)
Summary Page http://sourceforge.net/projects/twitter2rss/ (This is more then likely the one you want)
Downloads:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/twitter2rss/files/

Project SVN:

svn co https://twitter2rss.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/twitter2rss twitter2rss - Check out:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/twitter2rss/develop

Enjoy,
Justin