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drye replied on September 23, 2008 16:03 to the question "Google reader twitter RSS broken?" in Twitter:

This is crazy that the feeds don't update. Here is an example of a feed that never updates for me: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_time...

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KatGamer replied on September 23, 2008 05:34 to the question "Google reader twitter RSS broken?" in Twitter:

Feeds are still not working with Google Reader. I want to let visitors to my site subscribe directly to my Twitter RSS feed for site updates, and you just can't do it in Google Reader. For now I tell the ones who have Twitter accounts to use FreeMyFeed.com, but it would be nice for people to not have a Twitter account to subscribe to my feed in Google Reader.

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Poor lordgilman, we keep talking about the authentication issue. Anyway, to further expand what gpjt says, you can also use private strings to keep your username or password private while sharing the pipe. Here's how: http://dblume.livejournal.com/112262.... – David, on August 06, 2008 15:45

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Thanks, bombox - it works for me now! So perhaps even if the problem wasn't directly authentication-related, the Pipes solution can help, at least for some people.

I'd never used Pipes before, so in case it's of use to anyone else, here's what I did:

* Logged into Pipes
* Created a new Pipe.
* Dragged "Fetch feed" onto the grid
* Connected its "Items" output to the Pipe Output object
* In the URL field of the "Fetch Feed" box, I entered the RSS URL for my "Me plus friends" feed, adding in my twitter username and password, so that it looked something like this: "http://myusername:mypassword@twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/9999999.rss".
* Selected "Debugger: Pipe Output" from the bottom right of the screen, and checked that the resulting feed looked OK.
* Hit "Save", entering an appropriate name.
* "Back to my Pipes"
* Moused over the new pipe, and then selected the "View results" thing that appeared.
* Clicked on the "+Google" button at the top.
* Went through the usual steps for adding something to Google Reader.

...and as I said, everything worked.

Hope this helps. – gpjt, on August 06, 2008 13:00

A comment on the question "Google reader twitter RSS broken?" in Twitter:

lordgilman, it may please you to know that yahoo pipes has a similar problem (http://blog.pipes.yahoo.net/2008/07/2...) to the one google reader has. :) And FWIW, those of us searching the web for solutions to the "with friends" issue keep winding up here. So it's handy that that fix can be found here. Your pain has brought some relief to others. – David, on August 05, 2008 22:52

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this isn't about the feeds that need authentication and that was determined at the beginning of the thread. – lordgilman, on August 05, 2008 21:53

bombox replied on August 05, 2008 19:57 to the question "Google reader twitter RSS broken?" in Twitter:

google reader can't use rss with authentication.
I use yahoo pipes to get the feed with autentication, then feed my google reader with the yahoo pipe rss.

yay.

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Tappan replied on July 31, 2008 02:50 to the question "Google reader twitter RSS broken?" in Twitter:

I've been having the same problem for over a month now!

But it seems to happen only for *some* twitter IDs. It's
consistently broken for "burhop" but consistently works
for "CaliLewis" for example.

Google gurus please fix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A comment on the question "Google reader twitter RSS broken?" in Twitter:

I've mentioned this ticket on Google Reader's support group as a reply to someone else who seemed to have the same problem. You can see the thread at http://groups.google.com/group/google...
It also looks like I broke Get Satisfaction, one of mdy's responses up above shows "You and -1 other people have found this helpful." Today's been a productive day! – lordgilman, on July 30, 2008 23:48

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@lordgilman, I can reproduce your problem. That sucks. Also note that the Atom feeds you provided do not validate at http://feedvalidator.org. But BarbInNebraska's RSS feed does validate and is still wrong in Google Reader. http://twitter.com/statuses/user_time.... Now *that's* definitely not Twitter's fault. The feed is good and current. That complaint has to go to Google. – David, on July 30, 2008 23:23

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Thanks for the information! That's a pretty straightforward solution.

However, to those reading this thread I want to make it clear there is still a bug between Twitter and Google Reader. As an example here are two of my feeds:
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_time...
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_time...

The first one hasn't updated in 3 weeks in Reader (but has multiple daily updates) while the second one is going through even if it's a bit lagged. – lordgilman, on July 30, 2008 23:07

David replied on July 30, 2008 22:53 to the question "Google reader twitter RSS broken?" in Twitter:

If you're willing to run a cron job to get your friends RSS feed, you could do so the way I do with the twitter api. Details at my blog entry about it.

Basically, you use the twitter api to authenticate and get the feed, then save the feed someplace where Google Reader can access it.

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A comment on the question "Google reader twitter RSS broken?" in Twitter:

Yes, it was working for a while but for the past week or so I've got nothing. I've unmarked all of my "this answers the questions" because this problem has clearly not been fixed. – lordgilman, on July 24, 2008 00:27

gpjt replied on July 11, 2008 02:01 to the question "Google reader twitter RSS broken?" in Twitter:

Hmm, still not working as far as I can see.

Mihai Parparita's reply to "Google reader twitter RSS broken?" was just promoted to the most useful! lordgilman and 1 other person think it's one of the best replies.

As is turns out this was (at least partly) a Google Reader problem. We should be crawling individual user timeline feeds normally again (you should be seeing updates over the next few hours).

Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer

A comment on the question "Google reader twitter RSS broken?" in Twitter:

That's wonderful news! Thanks for posting an update here, Mihai. 8-) – mdy, on June 24, 2008 02:33

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Mihai,

Thanks for getting back to us. My wife and friends are seeing tweets again in GR, yay! :-) – ThomasHan, on June 24, 2008 02:24