I really don’t get Twitter, but there have been a few feeds I’d like to monitor. For those that use Twitter, how do you access the feeds? Do you actually visit Twitter.com, do you use an app/program, do you get tweets in your e-mail, or what?
Ideally I would sort of like them in e-mail but last time I checked that wasn’t easy to do.
I honestly have no idea if email is an option (although googling does provide a few options), but this is what I do: I use Tweetdeck, a freestanding application, and then make a list of the specific feeds I want to follow. You can put that specific list as its own column so you see only that list. But if you only follow a couple of feeds, you can just use Tweetdeck’s main column. But it’s easier to start putting things in lists now rather than later.
You can set up RSS feeds to people’s twitter accounts. Link.
Or if you use Google Reader you can click “subscribe” and then paste the required URL from the link above (i.e. “https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/control-z.rss” to follow posts from twitter user “control-z”).
I stopped doing this because there’s significant lag in posts going on twitter and going to the RSS feed, but if you don’t care about timeliness I recommend doing it this way.
That’s not bad. I have a daily app/site visit list, and RSS is one thing I’ve played with to try and combine some of those visits. I just can’t see visiting Twitter.com or a Twitter app every day.
I got this link to work with Google Reader: https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/ps2dailydeals.rss (that is a feed about deals for the game Planetside 2.)
How much lag are you seeing? As long as it’s the same day it should be fine for my needs.
Why in the world would you want them in an email?
Set up a Twitter account, follow the feeds you want, then go to Twitter to check in on them whenever you want. Do you honestly want hundreds of emails a day with nothing but one sentence of content?
Shayna dropped an excellent twitorial in the GQ recently.
Glad the OP can prioritize his needs.
I am not interested in feeds where someone posts every random thought or activity throughout the day. The feeds I’m interested will only have occasional tweets. Like this one: https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII
So yes, I do want them in my e-mail ideally. Email is something I check early and often. I’m not going to religiously visit Twitter.com just to see if something was posted lately.
But RSS will work too, thanks markdash.
Neither am I - which makes checking twitter.com once a day ideal for me. That sounds pretty much exactly like your situation. Open up Twitter, read the tweets until you get to tomorrow’s tweets, stop, repeat tomorrow morning. I use Google Reader as well - but it’s so inadequately suited to Twitter I can’t possibly imagine using it for that function. Outside of a 3rd party app like TweetDeck, Twitter is the ideal way to consume Twitter. Just saying maybe check it out for a few days and see if it works.
Pro tip: If you plan to make any tweets yourself, stop using words like “utilize” where “use” will do. 
Why do you say Google Reader is inadequate? It shows the tweets, that’s all the functionality I need.
Ok, use small words on Twitter. Got it. 
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Because it takes about 100 times longer to process tweets via Google Reader than it does just going to twitter.com. You seem to have placed a pretty high value on efficiency - I don’t see how Google Reader would make this process efficient.
So 100 seconds versus 1 second?
I’m being slightly hyperbolic - but yes, it’d be far easier to just add Twitter to your list of sites to visit each morning and be able to easily scan down the page than have to click on each RSS feed for each Twitter feed you follow, click on each individual tweet entry in order to read it, and click on any additional links or pictures that are contained in each of those tweets.
Do it whichever way you like - but I personally think you’re adding a whole lot more work to the process.