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Here’s how you can add your “at messages” to your Mac Mail.app 10.5 or 10.6 (or Thunderbird or Outlook Pro, etc.) via Twitter search’s RSS feed.

I’ve become a twitter re-tweet junkie. To get my fix I added an RSS feed of twitter’s search results to Mail.app. Here’s how I do that:

1. Go to search.twitter.com and search for @your_twitter_handle (ie. @mattclare)
   
2. Grad the RSS feed URL found on the right of the results page.
   
3. In Mail.app’s bottom right (or in Thunderbirds’ or Outlook’s account preferences) add a new RSS feed.
   
4. Paste in the RSS URL. You may want to also check to have it appear in your RSS feed. and press “Add”.
   

That should be it! Now whenever your account gets re-tweeted, “replied to” or otherwise mentioned you should see it in your inbox. Sure our inboxs are all already too full, but at least these messages will be short.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at 15:39 and is filed under howto, self-promotion, Technology, twitter. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.