Shannon Whitley

Twit2RSS is a script that makes it easier to read Twitter posts in a feed reader.  JTL is a script that filters Twitter posts and captures only posts which contain links.  I combined both of these features into a new WordPress plugin; it produces an RSS feed for your feed reader and an OPML file for your link list.

Once the plugin is activated, you just add your Twitter username and password.  A secret is required to prevent others from reading your posts.  Then, you access the feed right from your blog URL, just like your other feeds:

http://[your blog home]/?feed=twit2rss&secret=[your secret]

To use the OPML file, specify “jtl=true” — You don’t need a secret since all of these links are public.

http://[your blog home]/?feed=twit2rss&jtl=true

I’ve setup a Grazr widget on this blog [check the sidebar] to display the links from my Twitter friends.  At the Grazr site, I pointed the widget to my OPML file.  The list of links will automatically update anytime I access the OPML or RSS file.  To ensure that links are regularly updated, subscribe to the RSS feed in a feed reader.  The links will be updated whenever the feed is polled.

If you don’t like viewing your links by the user names, you can change the top-level groups to Year/Month/Day format.

Version 1.5 of Twit2RSS is available for download on the Google Code site.