How to Filter Your Twitter Feed
One cool thing about Twitter is that it automatically creates an RSS feed of your tweets. Sometimes these can be useful to put in other places that take RSS like FriendFeed or elsewhere. However, this can be a bit ‘noisy’ especially to none Twitter users who aren’t used to self-filtering.
One of the conventions that Twitter users have adopted is the notion of hashtags. Hashtags are words with the “#” symbol in front of them. Fore example, at a conference such as Bar Camp San Diego people might put #barcampsd in their twitter post. Sometimes people get a bit carried away with them but that is a topic for another time.
These two things, RSS from Twitter and the uniqueness of hashtags, let me create this great Yahoo! Pipe. With it, you can generate an RSS feed of only your tweets containing a certain hashtag. You can then use that feed in your other applications.
Have a look at my new Yahoo Pipe. It will give you and example of how to use it.
http://pipes.yahoo.com/techlifeweb/filteredtwitter
Simply enter the hashtag you want to filter on and your twitter name and then click Run Pipe. After the pipe runs you can click on the Get as RSS button to get your new filtered Twitter Feed.
RSS is not dead. It is the glue that holds the web together.
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Can’t seem to get this to work. Shame.
@btocher I checked your feed. You don’t have any recent hashtags to check it on which makes it a bit hard to test. Truth is, it doesn’t have to be a hashtag. Try it on a recent post with a unique word, works.
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This doesn’t work for me
You should try philtro.com, it’s a personalized spam filter for your twitter stream. Plus, it works
-K
If you have your twitter account set to private, this will not work.
How do you filter out the twitter username out of the rss feed?
e.g. akwoo: blah blah blah.
I want to filter out the akwoo and put @akwoo as title instead of the whole line?
@akwoo you can’t really do that with this pipe. You could sign up with Yahoo and clone this pipe and modify it if you want.