If you’ve been using twitter for some time and have built up an extensive collection of people to follow it can be hard to keep track of everyone’s updates. Even with a good twitter client like Tweetie, you’re still just left with a big list of everyone’s tweets, which is fine for most uses. But say there are some people whose tweets you don’t want to miss. Say, a news site or a particular celebrity. You could set up a separate account and just follow those people, perhaps using a second twitter client, or one that supports multiple clients, but there is an even simpler way.
To do this you’ll need an RSS reader. Personally I prefer Net News Wire but you can use anything, even Safari or Mail in Leopard. Start by finding the person who you want to follow more closely (i.e. stalk) in your twitter client. Select their info page and then open that person’s twitter feed in a browser.
Once you have their twitter page open in your browser all you have to do then is click on the RSS feed button, either on the sidebar below the list of followers, or if you’re using safari or firefox, the RSS icon in the title bar (select the timeline RSS feed). Once this opens in whatever feed reader you have you can then create a folder for all the people you want to follow. Of course the only problem is you won’t be able to reply directly, you’ll have to open their tweet in a browser (or the embedded browser if you’re using something like Net News Wire) but it makes it easier to keep track of important people whose tweets you don’t want to miss.
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Been doing this for almost ever, it’s great. I follow very few people directly, pisses some off but what the hey. You can also do the RSS thang for Twitter Search (keywords, company names etc.)