I quite often favourite tweets that I want to come back and refer to. Unfortunately, I rarely actually get round to going back over my favourite tweets, so I wanted a way to get them into an inbox that I check regularly (á la Getting Things Done).
I finally got round to figuring this out the other day, so here’s my recipe:
- You can get an RSS feed of your favourites using a URL of the form
https://api.twitter.com/1/favorites.rss?screen_name=jezcope
, though obviously you should replace “jezcope” with your own Twitter handle. - Once you’ve checked that’s working, copy it and feed it to a daily email digest generator. I’m currently trying blogtrottr which seems to be working well and gives you the option of checking at a range of frequencies from 1 to 24 hours.
- There’s also a list of RSS to email options on the old Feed My Inbox site
That’s it — pretty simple huh? You’ll probably get an email containing all of your favourites to start, and then future emails will contain just the latest favourites.