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Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

aspittle — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:54:39 -0000

I'm also getting a 500 Internal Error with the same message as you. Any update on how to get it working? I can't even get it to work with cluelessnewbie.

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

josephzizys — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:08:46 -0000

I've had a look at the log and it appears I am not the only one, a lot for people are getting this error. I tried the cluelessnewbie example and it works fine, just dosent seem to work for anything else.

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

josephzizys — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:04:46 -0000

I have tried this repeatedly and cannot get it to work, I get 500 INTERNAL ERROR "Can't evaluate the expression because the name "user" hasn't been defined."? any ideas? has something changed in the API since lists? am I the only one getting this error?

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

Andrew — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:24:52 -0000

Hey Dave, wrote up a quick howto to get this on Friendfeed and searchable. http://andrew.leahey.org/ar...

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

ranjitp — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:50:02 -0000

Very useful, thanks. Another mode of consumption is to run the OPML feed bundle through an automatic tagging system and generate a term cloud. Here's the output from Jay Rosen's subscriptions, with the top 100 terms: http://mashlogic.com/mash-f.... You can click on each term to see the relevant tweets. If you have the MashLogic client you can "subscribe" to this and see links from these terms on any web page.

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

dave — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:13:12 -0000

Thanks Chris!!

Glad people like this one.

The code will be released shortly.

Dave

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

chrisheuer — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:16:03 -0000

Dave. Seriously. Absolutely fantastic work on this one - thank you so much. I have needed this / wanted this for so long...

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

Philip John — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:26:19 -0000

This'd make a really good basis for a follower-backup service. I've known people to have their accounts hacked/suspended and have to start new ones so it gives them a way to store their followers in a readable format that an app can then digest and re-follow everyone. I can't wait to get the source and build that app!

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

Ivan Kirigin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:32:10 -0000

Thanks. I don't know much about the space. What kinds of tools exchange subscription lists?

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

dave — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:00:18 -0000

It uses the Twitter API to build the OPML -- which is more or less a standard format for exchanging subscription lists. The difference is format, nothing more.

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

dave — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:54:30 -0000

Don't give up yet. It's not that hard to write a processor that converts the tiny urls to whatever you want. Maybe Yahoo Pipes can do what you need? Worth a look...

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

Ivan Kirigin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:52:20 -0000

How is this different from the social graph methods in the Twitter API, besides including a bit more data?
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/...

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

thingles — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:51:37 -0000

This is great! Thanks for making it available!

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

bryan Schuetz — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:35:23 -0000

On closer examination because Twitter doesn't include the anchor tags around the tiny URLS this won't work. Too bad.

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

Bryan Schuetz — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:32:59 -0000

This is great, I'm going to be importing my OPML data into a Fever install http://feedafever.com/ which is meant for analyzing "regular" rss feeds (where regular means blog articles I suppose) to see what is being talked about most amongst your subscriptions and elevating those things up to a "What's Hot" page.

I'm wondering what it will do with all the tinyURLS not sure if it will be smart enough to identify hot topics or not. If it is then I'll essentially have my own personal twitter meme tracker.

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

dave — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:10:13 -0000

I call them reading lists and this time around I think we're going to make
them popular.

I do a weekly podcast with Jay Rosen, NYU Journalism prof, and he's
carefully managing his follow list in Twitter so that it is itself a
resource for journalism. I think a lot of people have figured this out that
subscription lists can be dynamic.

Phil read the stuff on the home page of this site and on the walkthrough and
see the big picture of what we're doing.

http://rsscloud.org/

http://rsscloud.org/walktro...

It's really odd that there has been zero press on this. They're just not
paying attention. But there are quite a few developers working on this stuff
now. And the users are figuring it out too.

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

dave — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:48:04 -0000

Thanks Phil. Your good opinion means everything! :-)

I got a few more ideas where this one came from...

Dave

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

Judah Lim — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:32:17 -0000

On Google Chrome, just do a right-click -> view page source. You'll see the result.

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

someBrad — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:14:20 -0000

Is the subscription list fixed at the time I generate it? If I subscribe to http://tw.opml.org/get?user... today and Jay makes some changes in his list next week, do I have to subscribe to the new list or will my list change as his does?

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

trendmatcher — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:21:29 -0000

Thanks for your quick response!I'm using Google Chrome, but I'll try Firefox
for this one.
Thanks again!

Met vriendelijke groet,

Willem Karssenberg
www.trendmatcher.nl

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

dave — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:14:32 -0000

It's working. This is what I see when I click on the link.

http://images.scripting.com...

I'm using Firefox/Mac -- it depends what browser you're using -- some of them aren't rendering it correctly. Try saving the text to local file and opening it with a text editor. You'll see it's all there.

Re: HowTo: OPML for Twitter subscription lists

trendmatcher — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:47:33 -0000

Looks good in writing, but it does'nt work for me:
http://tw.opml.org/get?user...