How to Add a Twitter feed to MyYahoo!
If you use MyYahoo! as your homepage, then you may be interested in this little tutorial I’ve put together.
Step 1: Go to Twitter.com (Either log in or go to the desired profile you would like to add)
Step 2: On the bottom right hand side of the Twitter page, you will see the RSS feed logo. Click this link and copy the url of the feed page.
Step 3: Go to MyYahoo! (Log in first to save your settings. You don’t have to log in, but if you later delete your cookies you will lose your settings)
Step 4: Click the “Add Content” button. Then click “Add RSS Feed.” Paste the copied url into the textbox and click the “Add” button.
Step 5: Once the feed has been verified, click the “App Options” button. Under the Preferences tab, you can select the number of items you’d like displayed, the expiration date, and how you would like the title displayed (I like to display up to 3 items from the past 24 hours and display the headline only). Click Save.
Step 6: Move this specific Feed App where you’d like it to appear on your MyYahoo! page by dragging the header.
Helpful Tips:
Tip #1: If you are at your Twitter Home Page and copy the RSS Feed you will be subscribing to all the people you are following. If you go to someone that you are following’s page and copy their RSS Feed then you are subscribing to only that persons tweets.
Tip #2: You can also subscribe to a specific Tweet search! This is kind of cool really. What you do is, do a Twitter Search and then copy the RSS Feed url for that particular query . Then repeat steps 3-6.
Feel free to post a comment if you have any questions or other ways to use MyYahoo!
Poll Question: What do you use your Twitter Favorites for? [current results]
18 Feb 2009 Catholic Tech Tips
The privacy box is unchecked in twitter. I thought it may be that.
Has there been any change between Yahoo/Twitter since your post. I added a standard Google blog to my yahoo page today with no issues.
My twitter URL ends in the 8 digit personal number followed by .rss as I presume yours must do. The only bit of your excellent screen shot I am unable to see.
I am following three other feeds through Twitter with as yet no one following me.
Any help would gratefully accepted
Of course now I’m not sure I’m really going to get the content I want to get with the “user_timeline” RSS but at least I figured out why it wasn’t working right.