Readtwit

Readtwit is a web service that finds links in your Twitter stream and formats them as an RSS feed. You may be saying "hold on here, I can get an RSS feed of my tweets from Twitter.com" but Readtwit has some goodies that make it a worthwhile service.

RSS feed of Links

First of all, it only loads tweets with links in them. Tweets with no links will get skipped, so if you're not a fan of chatty banter, this will appeal to you.

Readtwit parses URL shorteners and displays the actual page title of each link, and appends (via @username) at the end of the RSS item so you know who it came from. You'll never see a shortened URL unless it's in the body of the linked article.

Readtwit has @username and #hashtag filters to let you remove certain people or keywords out of its feed. This happens instantaneously after saving your settings, so if someone annoys you on a particular day, you can block their links temporarily, then turn them back on later.

Final Verdict

Readtwit gets 3/5 stars for providing a friendly way to get all the links in your twitter feed in your RSS reader. The Lionize crew seems helpful and receptive to feedback, so contact them via their website, or on twitter @adambn.

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  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Twitter-style @usersnames are linked to their Twitter account pages.
  • Twitter-style #hashtags are linked to search.twitter.com.

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