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Show HN: Read someone else's Twitter timeline

by killwhitey on 7/18/16, 10:55 AM with 34 comments

• by killwhitey on 7/18/16, 12:21 PM

  Author here: In developing this I discovered that Twitter really doesn't care about lists. The limits on API usage and aggressive following are well documented, but anything about lists is minor.

  Also, if anyone from Twitter is reading: it would be nice if Twitter implemented a way to subscribe to someone's timeline instead of having to resort to this method.

• by Brendinooo on 7/18/16, 1:32 PM

  Should be useful in exactly the same way that the WSJ's excellent Blue Feed, Red Feed (http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/) is. Thanks for sharing!

• by Fiaxhs on 7/18/16, 12:14 PM

  Do not set the created list as public, this generates notifications to every person in the list. Kinda fun to explain afterward :D

• by at-fates-hands on 7/18/16, 2:09 PM

  >> and a follow limit of 1,000 a day

  I only follow under a hundred people and find it cumbersome to keep up. How do you follow more than 1,000 users and manage to keep up with that stream?

• by liquidswords on 7/18/16, 12:36 PM

  I could have swore this used to be a feature on Twitter years back and they took it out. Am I crazy?

• by ideafarmer on 7/18/16, 12:43 PM

  Do these lists to default to Private or Public? Want to experiment with this but don't want to send out notifications (if that applies here).

• by ameyamk on 7/18/16, 6:20 PM

  I have been looking for this for a long time!

  +1 Twitter should build this!

• by vdfs on 7/18/16, 12:16 PM

  I find it hard to read mine

• by helloguille on 7/18/16, 12:22 PM

  Nice!