Don’t miss a Twitter mention – RSS style

It takes about two seconds to set up a feed for your Twitter mentions.

By: Martin Ove

[tweetmeme]If you’re reading this, you probably use a client for Twitter like Seesmic or Tweetdeck on your desktop or some other client on your smartphone. In that case, you probably never overlook a mention on Twitter.

However, if you want to be absolutely sure not to miss a mention, why not create a RSS feed for it?

This is the old Twitter search which allows you to subscribe to the RSS feed. Find it at search.twitter.com. Click to enlarge.

It might be useful to have them all in one place if you use a lot of different devices. It might also help you scan them all and mark those which need a reply and so forth.

If you’re familiar with RSS, this won’t take you a second.

This is the new Twitter search which does not allow you to subscribe to a RSS feed. This can be found on the frontpage twitter.com. Click to enlarge.

Go to search.twitter.com -> type @username -> press “Feed for this query”

That’s it, you’ve got your feed. Now subscribe to it in your RSS reader of choice.

What the….?

This is a sidenote really, but it surprised me.

Apparently the feed function is no longer part of the normal Twitter search. I just discovered this while doing this post.

Try it out by going to twitter.com and use the search function on the frontpage.

Why would they disable such a killer feature?