[simonw]

I found it surprisingly hard to find live examples of sites running this.

The directory at https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/we-are-twtxt gave me an error, but I found it in the Internet Archive (19th September 2024):

https://web.archive.org/web/20240919022045/https://git.mills...

Here's a live example from that list: https://niplav.site/twtxt.txt - and that one shows ones its following, this one has recent posts (from December 2024): https://txt.sour.is/user/xuu/twtxt.txt

The last commit to https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/commits/master/ is October 2023, so I don't think this project is 100% thriving at the moment.

Update: Aha! Found https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/registry.html and via it https://registry.twtxt.org/api/plain/tweets which shows some recent content across the network.

Also https://registry.twtxt.org/api/plain/users looks to be a list of users, though I couldn't figure out how to paginate it (using ?page=3 doesn't seem to work, despite that being listed on the https://registry.twtxt.org/swagger-ui/ page)

[ahazred8ta]

The current list of active yarn.social/twtxt sites is at

https://feeds.twtxt.net/feeds (there are quite a lot)

The community name is YARN; 'twtxt' is the protocol name.

[simonw]

Thanks! I've filed a PR to add that to the documentation. https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/pull/183

[networked]

twtxt isn't very popular. I think the feed format itself is neat, other than the tab, but maybe there isn't enough of a niche for it.

I have implemented a twtxt version of the Atom and the JSON Feed feed [1] for my site at https://dbohdan.com/twtxt.txt. The generator I originally developed for the site creates twtxt feeds, too: https://github.com/tclssg/tclssg. I haven't seen it in another static site generator or plugin; please link if you know one.

The public-access Unix system tilde.institute has a twtxt registry: https://twtxt.tilde.institute/. You can see the user list at https://twtxt.tilde.institute/api/plain/users. The aggregator https://twtxt.tilde.institute/api/plain/tweets is currently filled with what looks like somebody protesting the request rate:

  quite https://lublin.se/twtxt.txt 2024-12-23T03:15:21-05:00 <ROBOT VOICE> THE LAST HUMAN POST ON THIS FEED IS MORE THAN FOUR YEARS OLD. PERHAPS TWTXT CLIENTS SHOULD THEN FETCH THE FEED *VERY* RARELY.
  quite https://lublin.se/twtxt.txt 2024-12-23T03:15:16-05:00 <ROBOT VOICE> THE LAST HUMAN POST ON THIS FEED IS MORE THAN FOUR YEARS OLD. PERHAPS TWTXT CLIENTS SHOULD THEN FETCH THE FEED *VERY* RARELY.
  quite https://lublin.se/twtxt.txt 2024-12-23T03:15:07-05:00 <ROBOT VOICE> THE LAST HUMAN POST ON THIS FEED IS MORE THAN FOUR YEARS OLD. PERHAPS TWTXT CLIENTS SHOULD THEN FETCH THE FEED *VERY* RARELY.
  [...]

[1] This is why you shouldn't include the word "feed" in the name of your standard for feeds.

[lofaszvanitt]

because it's "for hackers"!