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by networked 544 days ago
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.
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[1] This is why you shouldn't include the word "feed" in the name of your standard for feeds.