"Hacker News 10/20/50/100" feeds really helped in avoiding the overload.<p>While their twitter bots (@newsyc20/@newsyc50/etc) are still active the feedburner feeds are down since 13 March!
(http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc20)<p>Is the author (Jeff Miller according to [1]) still active on HN ?<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057036
If you're looking for an alternative, may I suggest giving <a href="http://hnrss.org" rel="nofollow">http://hnrss.org</a> a try?<p>I built it to scratch an itch, but I love seeing others use it.<p>Add "?points={10,20,50,100}" to activate the points threshold (e.g., <a href="http://hnrss.org/newest?points=50" rel="nofollow">http://hnrss.org/newest?points=50</a>).<p>Also has feeds for stuff like Ask HN, searches, user comments, etc.
Looks like the old twitter v1 api supported RSS response format, but not anymore. That's really unfortunate. Anyone know of a generic twitter-to-rss conversion tool/app/service?