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Jill_HW replied on September 24, 2008 16:58 to the question "When will RSS feeds start working again?" in Twitter:

Dave, okay...I've started a new discussion for my answer and hope that it helps people.

djaquay replied on September 24, 2008 14:39 to the question "When will RSS feeds start working again?" in Twitter:

Jill_HW, looks like we've got two different issues mixed on this thread. One is how to login to get all of the tweets that you are subbed to (which that blog post addresses); the other is being able to reliably subscribe to a user's public RSS feed, which there appears to still be problems with.

Perhaps we need a new thread, to separate the two issues.

Oh, and thanks for the link, for those who have the "other" problem... :)

Dave

Jill_HW replied on September 24, 2008 13:00 to the question "When will RSS feeds start working again?" in Twitter:

Please see this blog post, which I think will help all of you in subscribing to your Twitter feed:

http://tinyurl.com/3tvrzt

I have used this technique in the last two weeks and it worked for me. It is based on some of the comments above, but I've written the instructions so you can see clearly how to modify the URL.

Umut replied on September 23, 2008 19:47 to the question "When will RSS feeds start working again?" in Twitter:

Nothing seems to help here..

A comment on the question "When will RSS feeds start working again?" in Twitter:

not working for me either :( – Umut, on September 23, 2008 19:41

A comment on the question "When will RSS feeds start working again?" in Twitter:

exact same thing here – Umut, on September 23, 2008 19:31

djaquay replied on September 19, 2008 15:11 to the question "When will RSS feeds start working again?" in Twitter:

Following up, I've added a few more Twitter feeds to bloglines, and they too seem to die after a day or so.

djaquay replied on September 18, 2008 19:46 to the question "When will RSS feeds start working again?" in Twitter:

I can't add my feed (http://twitter.com/statuses/user_time...) to Google Reader, and while I can add it to Bloglines, after a day or two, I get the [!] sign indicating that there's a problem. Seems like something's up w/Twitter, from where I'm sitting anyway.

Dave

Cheryl replied on September 16, 2008 14:12 to the question "When will RSS feeds start working again?" in Twitter:

I get the same thing using SpringWidgets - it works with http://twitter.com/statuses/user_time... but not with http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_t... or with http://username:password@twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/xxxxxxxx.rss. Hmmm.......

SarahG replied on September 09, 2008 02:13 to the question "When will RSS feeds start working again?" in Twitter:

Hi Callum- I tried using http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/XXXXX.rss as a widget and I get the error message. The only way I can get the RSS feed to work on my blog is to substitute friends with user. Is it possible to show replies in my feed on my blog?

A comment on the question "When will RSS feeds start working again?" in Twitter:

I appreciate trying to help, but this workaround isn't working for me. :-( – Tim, on June 21, 2008 05:17

A comment on the question "When will RSS feeds start working again?" in Twitter:

Excellent! Thanks for the workaround, Callum! – fenriq, on June 11, 2008 14:38

Stevi Deter replied on June 10, 2008 21:44 to the question "Does Ping.fm notify users when updates fail on different services?" in Ping.fm:

Personally, I see why it's difficult and it's a low priority addition for me. I understand if things don't get posted b/c site is down, etc. Even if I tried to post it directly to (twitter/etc.) at that moment, it wouldn't happen anyway.

If it's really critical, I'll go to the service directly.

Just my $0.02.

KatGamer replied on June 10, 2008 21:06 to the question "When will RSS feeds start working again?" in Twitter:

I tried subscribing to my own Twitter feed (just me, not my friends) and Google reader picked up the 2 Tweets I had already made, but is not picking up any new Tweets.

V replied on June 08, 2008 14:38 to the question "Does Ping.fm notify users when updates fail on different services?" in Ping.fm:

There's two problems here: first, its not possible to do a "real time" notify because the pings are queued, and secondly some services lie about the success of posting.

RE the realtime problem - how about sending an e-mail to the user with a specific subject/keyword if a post fails after they submitted it? This way they could filter their mail to delete those messages or file them if they don't want their inbox clogged, but the message would get through that a fail had occurred. Or some kind of ajax popup could poll a "success" variable for each service and update on the screen when the ping was processed and confirmation had been received from the services.

For the problem of lying services, I think this isn't Ping's problem, but if there was an indication of "reported" success or failure it would make it far more obvious where the problem is. If a service like Twitter acknowledges receipt of a message, it should post it - not lose it. If Ping shows the message was acknowledged by Twitter but it doesn't show up, this is then for the user to take up with Twitter - and they would have the technical details they would need to demonstrate to Twitter that its a problem within their service and that *they* need to take ownership of it. Its not up to Ping to fix the world, but it would be helpful if it gave users the information they need to press for change where it is required.

sean808080 replied on June 08, 2008 14:08 to the question "Does Ping.fm notify users when updates fail on different services?" in Ping.fm:

i realize it's a lot of work but there really should be some kind of feedback otherwise it's totally hit or miss whether or not a message goes through.

unfortunately, even though the other services outage [twitter anyone?] might be the cause, ping.fm is the service being utiltized, so the perception would be it was a failure at ping.fm unless the user was told otherwise.

not saying this is right but i think this is how the user experience would likely play out.

how about giving feedback on a service outage "in general" instead of whether the user's particular message went though?

for example, on hahlo.com there's a banner that pops up saying, if you see this then there's a problem at twitter.

maybe you can return a similar message after a user sends a ping so that the user at least knows that there could be a problem with a particular service.

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Adam replied on June 07, 2008 05:08 to the question "Does Ping.fm notify users when updates fail on different services?" in Ping.fm:

This is the same situation, it would be nice to have, but much harder than it sounds. For example, if we submit the message to twitter, it might say "ok we got it", but it really didn't, so we'd have to double verify all posts. On the other hand, sometimes we could submit a message and never get a response, but it actually goes though. If we tried those again it might duplicate your posts, and cause even more anger.

I would like to have this working at some point, but with the complexity involved it's low priority on our list.

Besides, that is the beauty of ping.fm. You can blast to multiple services, and if one is down (like twitter seems to be a lot), you still get your message out.

jaredg replied on June 07, 2008 04:14 to the question "Does Ping.fm notify users when updates fail on different services?" in Ping.fm:

Plurk was down earlier and I sent a ping while it was down. The message got posted to my other services but not to Plurk, and they've been back up for a while.

Would it be any easier to put the message back in the queue and try it again in a few minutes?

Thanks for making ping.fm. It's very convenient.