How to make custom Twitter groups

05 Mar

Posted by: Christopher S. Penn in: New media

See that RSS link at the bottom of your Twitter page? Copy it.

Start a new pipe. Paste in the URL of your RSS as a Fetch pipe.

Add a filter pipe. Put the real names of the people you need to follow most as part of the title, or if you only know their Twitter name, use that in the guid field. Make sure the pipe is set to permit any meeting these conditions.

Connect everything, preview your output.

Publish to the world, and check the public URL of the pipe output. Bingo - you have a Twitter custom group. Here’s an example.

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Ryan Price
28|Feb|2008 10

I can’t believe nobody has included a link to 30boxes’ excellent tool that does this without knowing Yahoo Pipes. I don’t work for them or anything, I just love their services.

http://m.30boxes.com/twapper

It’s designed to be viewed from a mobile browser, but works really well in a desktop browser. Just throw in the names of up to 6 friends (I think, I’ve never done more than 4) and it gives you a page you can bookmark right away. The usernames are passed in the URL, so it’s very flexible.
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trythiscolor
30|May|2008 16

Christopher, your idea sounds great! However, when I went to view your sample, the result said “No pipe results for Twitter filter.”

Is this a twitter issue, or a Yahoo pipes issue?
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RB
05|Jun|2008 18

Nice post and has brought another “thing” to do on my list of things to do:)
Tim
06|Jun|2008 19

the “with friends” RSS feed is no longer provided by Twitter:
http://status.twitter.com/post/37217014/with-friends-tab-and-feeds

So this will no longer work.

I wanted to create a custom Twitter group to aggregate all of the NASA mission tweets:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/timbond/twitter_group

This is my first attempt at Pipes, so this sample isn’t finished.