An interesting point of this post is that Twitter is effectively about to replac... | Hacker News

Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

login

bambax on Jan 2, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried

An interesting point of this post is that Twitter is effectively about to replace RSS, and that in order to use Twitter one has to have an account with it and "follow" such and such.

But is this really true? Wouldn't it be possible to build an (authorized) interface to Twitter that would serve search results according to topics/keywords without actually creating an account with Twitter?

Something along the lines of

    twitfeed.com/topics?q=topic1+topic2+topic3

I'm sure this already exists somehow?

rjvir on Jan 2, 2011 [–]

Kind of: http://twitter.com/search?q=node.js%20OR%20from:reddit%20OR%...

This searches all posts that contain "node.js", are from reddit, or are from hackernewsbot. You can even get an RSS feed for it, at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=node.js%20OR%20from:reddi...

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact