Twitter Screensaver
by Iain on June 27, 2007
I did something very simple with Twitter that I quite like.
I took the RSS feed from my ‘friends’ page. Then fed it into the Mac RSS screensaver (which is installed as standard on a Mac). Now whenever my screensaver activates I get a rundown of what my friends are doing. I guess if you have updates on it’s kind of pointless, but I don’t so it’s a nice passive way to get a snapshot of what people are up to.
It looks a little something like this:
Twitter Screensaver
from iaintait
10 comments
Now that is impressive!
by Claire on 27/06/2007 at 7:32 pm. #
Only problem is, when your screen saver activates, it’s likely because you’re away from your computer so you won’t get the updates. Everyone else will though. :-)
by Knotty on 28/06/2007 at 10:03 am. #
you should know that I fall asleep at my computer a lot, when I wake up I see my screensaver ;-)
by Iain on 28/06/2007 at 10:05 am. #
I saw my name on there. Spooky.
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by Vonk! » Twitter Screensavers on 03/09/2008 at 11:37 am. #
I’m sure someone out there could work out a way to make this a great advertising system – rss screensavers have been around for a while – but what about offering people a chance to promote their feeds to a subscribed audience – targeted by keywords – Twitter would be a great basis – then again I usually walk off when the screensaver is on lol
by Paul Baines on 09/01/2009 at 5:11 pm. #
I attempted to do this by dragging and dropping the friends list rss from my twitter but it didn’t seem to work with mine for some reason. Anybody else experience this? Is it because it’s password protected? Any way around it?
by Turnipseed on 20/02/2009 at 10:38 pm. #
The way round the passowrd protection is to set system preferences as always allow on the twitter keychain item in keychain access. I’ve done this but the date always reads out 1st January 2001. Anyone have any ideas how to change this?
Many thanks
by Mark Neil on 17/07/2009 at 12:28 pm. #
I’d like a screensaver that can show (specifically) the RSS-feed of a Twitter search result (so you get to see feeds from all kinds of people about subjects you like), popping up and floating in nice Twitter-like balloons with pictures of posters. Without having to sign up for Twitter.
by KJster on 03/01/2010 at 9:27 pm. #