Twitter Favorites – The Barking Dog

Twitter Favorites is like that barking dog. You aren’t sure how to deal with it, and keep looking for some obedience classes to tame ‘the beast’.

I “favorite” several quality Tweets that I see come through my Twitter stream. Especially when I am out traveling I do this a lot.

Often I see a Tweet that I want to dig deeper into, but just don’t have the time to give it the proper attention right away.

Twitter allows you to Favorite Tweets that come through your Twitter stream. This is all fine and dandy, the only problem with Twitter Favorites is that the only option Twitter provide is to store Favorites sequential by default.

Google Reader To The Rescue

Since Twitter or 3rd party products don’t offer options at the moment to organize your Twitter Favorites we need to be a little creative.

Twitter has one option that is really great – you can subscribe to your Twitter Favorite RSS Feed.

1. Find your Twitter Favorites

You can find your Twitter Favorites two ways:

a. Type the url for your Twitter Favorites in your browser: http://twitter.com/TwtrCoach/favorites

b. Log into your Twitter account and in the right column click on Favorites

For both options there will be a RSS link in the right column that says RSS feed of Username’s favorites.

2. Click on this link and add your Twitter Favorite feed to Google Reader

Google Reader is a free RSS reader if you have not signed up for it yet.

And also if you use iPhone then search and download the free MobileRSS application.

3. Find the Subscription for your Twitter Favorite RSS feed

Open Google Reader and look for Subscriptions in left column. If you did subscribe to your Twitter Favorite RSS feed you should see a feed that says Twitter / Favorites from Username.

4. Create a Twitter Favorite folder

If you click on your new subscription Twitter / Favorites from Username you should now have a window showing you the stream of your Twitter Favorites.

Here your click on the option that says Feed settings…

Then there will come up a drop down menu, here you will look for New Folder. Then create a folder that you call Twitter Favorites.

This way your RSS feed will automatically be assigned to the new folder.

5. Tag your Favorite Tweets

The next thing you now want to do is to click on Expanded in your RSS stream window. You will now see the Tweet, how it looked like when you originally favorited it with additional options from Google Reader.

One of the options you will see below the Tweet is Add Tags. Here you can add different tags separated by commas. The tags are used to organize your Tweets. I use more then one tag. If Darren Rowse aka @Problogger tweets a blog tip then I can use tags like; problogger, blog tips.

Your tags will show in the right column under Subscriptions.

One tip here is to use unique tags – don’t use name of an existing folder.

6. Take it one step farther

When you are in the window of your RSS stream under the Tweet select the option Send to. You will then see that you have the option to send your favorite Tweet to either Delicious, Friendfeed or Posterous.

I send mine to Delicious where I can also add tags to it, and Friendfeed is set up to pick up when I do a Social Bookmark at Delicious.

And then I send it to my Posterous which is my extended Rambling blog.

Not only did I tame ‘the beast’ but my neighbors comes and ask me what I did.

What have you done to tame your ‘beast’?

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Twitter Favorites – The Barking Dog

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