As I’m not using it actively for months and want to stop using it, I want to delete my Twitter account. However I still have one use-case that prevents me doing that. My city local police is sending some traffic related news only on Twitter and I use the notification functionality of Twitter official client to be informed as soon as they post something.
I have tested some open source Twitter client which works pretty well for looking at content in my opinion but none of them have the capacity to push a notification when a post is done in a specific followed account.
Do you have some recommendations (it would be best if it’s open source but I’m not completely closed to “free as in free beer” alternatives) ?
Thanks.
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maybe rss feeds through nitter are what you are looking for
Haven’t thought about RSS for years but yeah it’s a good idea.
Tried with Feeder as RSS client and seems to suit my use
yeah feeder is really solid, congrats on being twitter free!
My city local police is sending some traffic related news only on Twitter
they’ll soon stop doing only on X, first because X will ban them unless they pay a ridiculous amount of money to get “verified”, then, because you can’t see tweets (exes?) if you aren’t logged in, its utility as a public service is nullified. As soon the public service will notice that the public channel is no more public, they will switch to a different microblogging service. Saw many traffic/weather alerts switch to something else in my country (mostly telegram, unfortunately)
Indeed part of the goal is to wait they are forced to switch to some more open stuff
I don’t think theres an option which pushes notifications (as usual I reserve the right to be wrong!). Quacker & Fritter allow you to follow people without the need to sign in or even have a Twitter account. Fritter currently seems to be broken. Quacker is alive & quacking
And I’m now free from Twitter (well in 30 days…) 🎉🍾🍺
