Twitter – feed hashtags into Twitter
Talking to Olivier about this over lunch. How to add a #hashtag feed into Twitter.
I asked around and here’s how to do it – [now edited for accuracy 17 Sept 09]:
- Set up a Twitter account.
- Set up a #hashtag at http://hashtags.org
- Go to the page for the #hashtag you’ve just created and subscribe to the feed or copy it (each #hashtag has it’s own feed).
- Use twitter search for the #hashtag you want (http://search.twitter.com/)
- Subscribe to the page for that search
- Use http://validator.w3.org/feed/ to make sure you have a working feed
- Go to http://twitterfeed.com/ and set up an account.
- Feed your #hashtag feed into Twitterfeed
Now each time someone #hashtags a tweet with your #hashtag, it’ll get fed (via Twitterfeed) into your Twitter.
[edit: point 3 above. If you've just created a new hashtag, it might take a while for it to load on the hashtag website. Make sure the the Twitter account you've set up is 1. following hashtag.org - 2. make sure that hashtag.org is following your Twitter account.]
[edit. hashtags.org are having financial difficulties http://hashtags.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/buying-some-time/ - this is a real shame, because the service they provided was great.]
[edit. now it appears that you're able to subscribe to feeds from twitter search results, nice.]
