It used to be easy to create an RSS feed to follow a Twitter hashtag, user or keyword. One way to do this was to create a Twitter RSS feed using Twitter search engine Topsy.

Twitter switched off the API for RSS back in May, so Topsy is now unable to offer that function.

The good news is that it is still possible to create an RSS feed from Twitter but it is slightly more complicated.

There is a helpful guide here.

And this video guides you through step-by-step:



There is also a written explanation in this Journalism.co.uk guide on how to create a tweet-powered light bulb.

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