TwitteReader is like Google Reader for Twitter
If you've ever wished you could scroll through your Twitter messages and star your favorites for reference as if you were using Google Reader, then TwitteReader might be for you. This web app is basically a Google Reader clone, except instead of managing general RSS feeds, it manages your Twitter account.
When you type in your username and password, you'll see a list of the latest tweets from the people you follow on Twitter. You can scroll through messages using the familiar j/k shortcuts and you can refresh the list by hitting "r." You can star items, and post replies to any message directly from the reader.
You could accomplish something quite similar by taking an RSS feed from Twitter and adding it to Google Reader. But then you wouldn't be able to reply to messages. TwitteReader is licensed under a GNU license, and the developer has provided tools that let you run it yourself from any web server.
[via WebWare]
When you type in your username and password, you'll see a list of the latest tweets from the people you follow on Twitter. You can scroll through messages using the familiar j/k shortcuts and you can refresh the list by hitting "r." You can star items, and post replies to any message directly from the reader.
You could accomplish something quite similar by taking an RSS feed from Twitter and adding it to Google Reader. But then you wouldn't be able to reply to messages. TwitteReader is licensed under a GNU license, and the developer has provided tools that let you run it yourself from any web server.
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Subscribe to commentsSAGExSDXMar 6th 2009 1:37PM
one reason why you couldn't just take the RSS feeds for each user and put it into google reader is because of immediacy. Google Reader pulls from a cache. Depending on some unknown criteria (probably readership), certain feeds will update instantly or delayed.
For example, this gets to my Google Reader 5 minutes after the entry is posted. Capcom's RSS feed updates more than 30 minutes after entry post.
VarunMar 6th 2009 4:22PM
More annoyingly, Google Reader doesn't support authentication for third party websites. :-/
Jash SayaniMar 6th 2009 4:22PM
This is great! And the good part is that you can host it on your own server. Well, if you dont have one, you can get Portable Apache with PHP and fire it up as localhost. But, its really cool for people with server, the app is under your contol...
Setting it up now.
muteboyMar 6th 2009 6:30PM
I tried the website, and it works well, except when I typed a letter "r" in a tweet, it would refresh the page!
boardtcMar 9th 2009 7:57AM
if you would like twitter in your reader, check out
http://www.gtweet.net