Yesterday I wrote up a way to create an emulation of Twitter’s Track Feature.
This is a great for tracking keywords, but not really for tracking usernames. This is especially the case if you are already following that person (because you’ll get duplicate tweets), or that person is yourself (because, well you know what you sent, right?).
The whole point of tracking a username (particularly your own) is to catch any replies across the Twitter’verse; to let you save SMS Notifications by only switching them on for the minimal set of people, yet still be able to converse with anyone that replies to your tweets.
Solution
To complete the emulation of Twitter’s Track feature (until it’s re-enabled) I built this Yahoo!Pipe.
Enter the username you want to Track, press Run Pipe and add the resultant RSS Feed to your Twitterfeed account.
UPDATE: sadly Yahoo!Pipes doesn’t seem to be living up to it’s potential. I’m updating this as I find what works over on my wiki.
