How to Import Your Twitter Contacts to Friend Feed

Posted in friendfeed, IDT Labs Software Development, Technology, Twitter by engtech on April 21, 2008

I’ve commented before that Friend Feed makes for a really sweet Twitter client because of the way it threads replies and how easy it is to reply to another user. The only problem is trying to find all of your Twitter contacts on Friend Feed.

I’ve written a program that uses Google’s social graph to find the links between Twitter users and Friend Feed users. Download the program, run it, enter your passwords and watch it find and subscribe to all of your Tweeps on Friend Feed.

It keeps track of who it has added over time. If you unsubscribe from someone using the web interface, they won’t be added again by the program.

Screenshot

This first version is a text program. The next version will have a GUI and be more interactive.

Privacy

Twitter 2 Friend Feed Importer does not store your passwords in any shape or form, nor does it do anything else funky with them. I’ve being doing this too long to put my reputation on the line with something that shady.

Self-Promotion

The first time you run it, Twitter 2 Friend Feed Importer broadcasts that you’re using it. You can see the message here. The message is sent out at most once a month, and only when you’re running the program.

It’ll also add me as a friend on Friend Feed, but if you unsubscribe I’ll never be added again.

Download It

The first version is available as a self-installing Windows application. The next version will be more interactive and you’ll be able to create imaginary friends for your Tweeps who aren’t on Friend Feed yet. Future versions will also support Linux and Mac (but for now you can run this in Parallels/Wine).

Click here to install Twitter 2 Friend Feed Importer (3.5 MB)

Please use this link to share the program: http://internetducttape.com/2008/04/21/import-twitter-to-friendfeed/

Technical Notes

You can safely skip reading this section unless you’re interested in how I find out if a Twitter user is on Friend Feed. :)

It uses Google’s Social Graph API to try and find connections between accounts on Twitter and Friend Feed (since Friend Feed doesn’t provide a good autodiscovery mechanism). You can play with the Social Graph API here. Unfortunately, this can be hit or miss. It works great on some people, but not so well with others.

It comes down to whether or not the person has been setting up XFN and FOAF links between their services. It shows a big failure in the social graph API. People who have claimed their accounts using Technorati, Claim ID or MyBlogLog are easily linked — others, not so much.

I’m planning on improving this in future versions, and moving away from Google’s API. Here’s hoping Friend Feed opens that information up more in the future.

Tagged with: Twitter 2 Friend Feed Importer

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How to Import Your Twitter Contacts to Friend Feed « // Internet Duct Tape « oevl@web said, on April 21, 2008 at 1:29 am

[…] Source: How to Import Your Twitter Contacts to Friend Feed […]
Craig said, on April 21, 2008 at 3:26 am

any chance of an online version? my pc is all the way up those stairs.
vrypan|net|weblog » Twitter to FriendFeed importer said, on April 21, 2008 at 4:12 am

[…] το έχω δοκιμάσει, αλλά η ιδέα είναι όμορφη. Το Twitter to Friend Feed importer χρησιμοποιεί το Google Social Graph για να βρει ποιούς […]
Easy way to synch who you follow on Twitter and Friendfeed - O’Flaherty said, on April 21, 2008 at 5:34 am

[…] change soon as courtesy of Eric over at InternetDuctTape there now exists a program called “Twitter 2 Friend Feed Importer” which will plough through al the people you follow on Twitter and add then to your […]
فرندفید و اسکریپتهای گریزمانکی (2) said, on April 21, 2008 at 8:34 am

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Easily import Twitter contacts into FriendFeed for free - great new app said, on April 21, 2008 at 1:34 pm

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FriendFeed Links | sarahintampa said, on April 21, 2008 at 2:19 pm

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Twitter To Friendfeed Importer | friendfeed, Twitter | Craig Childs said, on April 21, 2008 at 6:11 pm

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crazynetechstuff said, on April 21, 2008 at 6:43 pm

not sure if I missed it up there but does it automatically subscribe to them? Or are you just shown who is on friendfeed. I don’t think I would want to subscribe to some of my twitter contacts on friendfeed. Too much noise.
rob zand » Blog Archive » links for 2008-04-21 said, on April 21, 2008 at 6:50 pm

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Twitter y sus problemas - esTwitter.com said, on April 22, 2008 at 1:46 am

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matt said, on April 22, 2008 at 10:17 am

This is fantastic! I was just thinking about how to do this over the weekend.

One idea for improvement – if a Twitter user is not found on FriendFeed, add them as an imaginary friend on FF using just the RSS feed from their Twitter account. This could be an option that the user chooses upon running the app.

A second refinement to the above would be that if a Twitter friend is found on FF and not yet added, then check to see if their Twitter RSS feed is an imaginary friend on FF and then remove it once you’ve added the person as a friend on FF. This condition could occur if someone recently created a FF account after others had added their Twitter RSS feed as an imaginary friend.

I haven’t looked at the FF API so I don’t know if this is even possible.

Thanks for sharing your work.
engtech said, on April 22, 2008 at 10:55 am

@ Craig:

Not going to happen, unfortunately.

By providing it as a program, you use your own bandwidth/CPU and I don’t have to worry about API limits because it’s distributed across multiple IPs.

If I made a web app I’d have a whole host of other issues to deal with, plus have to pay for hosting.
engtech said, on April 22, 2008 at 10:57 am

@ crazynetechstuff:

This version automatically subscribes.

The graphical version will let you interactively choose to subscribe or not.

If you unsubscribe from someone (using the website) after they have been added with my program, they will not be added again.
engtech said, on April 22, 2008 at 10:59 am

@ matt:

Yup, I have the imaginary friends support on the drawing board.

I don’t think I’m going to have it automatically add imaginary friends though (lets face it, some people on twitter have 20,000 friends). It’ll be a manual “pick and add” process.
Greasemonkey Scripts: Friend Feed Auto-Pagerization, Resharing Links and Even More « // Internet Duct Tape said, on April 23, 2008 at 10:20 am

[…] while. I might put together something for importing your Twitter contacts as friends (update: here it is) but if I wait long enough I’m sure they’ll do it as an official […]
Sam Jones said, on April 23, 2008 at 1:41 pm

That’s awesome! Great job on that, I really like your use of Google’s Social Graph. Now if they can build this type of thing into the service and support multiple account types (e.g. Jaiku, tumblr, etc). Maybe they should buy this from you ;-)
Rich said, on April 23, 2008 at 2:44 pm

First use of social graph I’ve seen. Good work!
engtech said, on April 23, 2008 at 4:52 pm

@ Rich:

Thanks Rich. It can’t be the first use of the social graph though, because I’m using someone else’s ruby library to do it. :)
links for 2008-04-30 | Lazycoder said, on April 30, 2008 at 5:35 am

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Victoria Marinelli said, on May 10, 2008 at 2:29 am

Any idea how far out this ‘graphical’ version might be? As I commented recently at SheGeeks, I use FriendFeed and Twitter for significantly different purposes – of the number of Twitter users I follow, I intentionally follow fewer than 5% of these (& others) on FriendFeed. I’d like the option to be very selective about who to add once the program has run (for similar reasons as
@crazynetechstuff describes above).

Looking forward to learning more. Thanks for your work :)
James Neal said, on May 10, 2008 at 6:58 pm

This is a great tool. Just want to say Thanks! Now I’ll be flooded with more info. (Smile!)
Luciano E. Guerche said, on May 15, 2008 at 9:00 pm

The error below is happening every time I run twitter2friendfeed.exe. Any clues on what may causing it?

C:\>”C:\Program Files\twitter2friendfeed\twitter2friendfeed.exe”
Welcome to Twitter 2 Friend Feed v0.0.4 by InternetDuctTape.com

Twitter username (ie: brittney):
guerchele
Twitter password (ie: kfedsux):
*******
Trying to login to Twitter as guerchele
…successfully logged in

Friend Feed username (ie: brittney):
guerchele
Friend Feed password (ie: kfedsux):
*******
Trying to login to Friend Feed as guerchele
…successfully logged in
Loading friends from Friend Feed…
… 235 friends loaded from Friend Feed
Loading friends from Twitter…
… 557 friends loaded from Twitter
biz: Not on Friend Feed
ev: Not on Friend Feed
stevej: Not on Friend Feed
jeremiah: Not on Friend Feed
blaine: is already your friend on Friend Feed
goldman: is already your friend on Friend Feed
veen: is already your friend on Friend Feed
jerrymichalski: is already your friend on Friend Feed
gerwitz: is already your friend on Friend Feed
crisdias: Not on Friend Feed
sacca: is already your friend on Friend Feed
kfury: is already your friend on Friend Feed
waynesutton: is already your friend on Friend Feed
ross: is already your friend on Friend Feed
manton: is already your friend on Friend Feed
davemc500hats: is already your friend on Friend Feed
factoryjoe: is already your friend on Friend Feed
mparekh: is already your friend on Friend Feed
kathy_johnson: Can’t read their Social Graph
dhinchcliffe: is already your friend on Friend Feed
danielito: is already your friend on Friend Feed
laughingsquid: is already your friend on Friend Feed
davidcrow: is already your friend on Friend Feed
manoelboninneto: Not on Friend Feed
wellyngtom: Not on Friend Feed
dydimustk: is already your friend on Friend Feed
klemengore: Not on Friend Feed
marijagore: Not on Friend Feed
flaviadurante: Not on Friend Feed
davemorin: is already your friend on Friend Feed
davewiner: is already your friend on Friend Feed
jasoncalacanis: is already your friend on Friend Feed
nilciaguerchegonsale: Not on Friend Feed
elcio: is already your friend on Friend Feed
stewtopia: is already your friend on Friend Feed
chaitanya: Not on Friend Feed
davidparmet: is already your friend on Friend Feed
ijustine: is already your friend on Friend Feed
alexknowshtml: is already your friend on Friend Feed
ahynes1: Can’t read their Social Graph
stoweboyd: Can’t read their Social Graph
chrisbrogan: is already your friend on Friend Feed
julien: Not on Friend Feed
drewolanoff: Can’t read their Social Graph
veronica: is already your friend on Friend Feed
emilychang: is already your friend on Friend Feed
adactio: Can’t read their Social Graph
nzkoz: Not on Friend Feed
bethgo: is already your friend on Friend Feed
alexdc: is already your friend on Friend Feed
t: is already your friend on Friend Feed
iankennedy: is already your friend on Friend Feed
revdancatt: is already your friend on Friend Feed
elatable: is already your friend on Friend Feed
scobleizer: is already your friend on Friend Feed
evanwolf: is already your friend on Friend Feed
jasona: is already your friend on Friend Feed
mbites: Not on Friend Feed
ryancarson: is already your friend on Friend Feed
scottw: is already your friend on Friend Feed
plip: Not on Friend Feed
donxml: Not on Friend Feed
al3x: is already your friend on Friend Feed
schlomo: is already your friend on Friend Feed
anildash: Not on Friend Feed
baxiabhishek: is already your friend on Friend Feed
kveton: is already your friend on Friend Feed
jeffbarr: Not on Friend Feed
nickstarr: is already your friend on Friend Feed
gapingvoid: Can’t read their Social Graph
mhinze: is already your friend on Friend Feed
rizzn: is already your friend on Friend Feed
jasonsantamaria: Not on Friend Feed
zeldman: Not on Friend Feed
donlbe: is already your friend on Friend Feed
hardaway: is already your friend on Friend Feed
ericaogrady: is already your friend on Friend Feed
frankarr: is already your friend on Friend Feed
pop17: is already your friend on Friend Feed
iworkforthem: Not on Friend Feed
omarshahine: is already your friend on Friend Feed
jowyang: is already your friend on Friend Feed
tcelestino: is already your friend on Friend Feed
jzawodn: is already your friend on Friend Feed
dacort: is already your friend on Friend Feed
stickwithjosh: Not on Friend Feed
tamar: is already your friend on Friend Feed
ottoradke: is already your friend on Friend Feed
jeffsand: is already your friend on Friend Feed
bs: is already your friend on Friend Feed
mitchdenny: Can’t read their Social Graph
whurley: Not on Friend Feed
dori: is already your friend on Friend Feed
calebjenkins: Can’t read their Social Graph
benmcdonald: is already your friend on Friend Feed
nicolesimon: is already your friend on Friend Feed
rlewallen: Not on Friend Feed
stammy: is already your friend on Friend Feed
parislemon: is already your friend on Friend Feed
kevinrose: Not on Friend Feed
chrissaad: is already your friend on Friend Feed
sarahintampa: is already your friend on Friend Feed
joi: Can’t read their Social Graph
lazycoder: is already your friend on Friend Feed
steverubel: is already your friend on Friend Feed
keyvan: is already your friend on Friend Feed
coryduncan: is already your friend on Friend Feed
cbilson: is already your friend on Friend Feed
mikeg1: Not on Friend Feed
stevenf: Not on Friend Feed
loiclemeur: is already your friend on Friend Feed
pierre: is already your friend on Friend Feed
justintv: is already your friend on Friend Feed
adkinn: is already your friend on Friend Feed
jassand: is already your friend on Friend Feed
seanpaune: is already your friend on Friend Feed
chrispirillo: is already your friend on Friend Feed
woodyp: Subscribed
jasonmauer: Not on Friend Feed
a7an: is already your friend on Friend Feed
jongalloway: is already your friend on Friend Feed
betsyweber: is already your friend on Friend Feed
ambermacarthur: Not on Friend Feed
haacked: Not on Friend Feed
davenielsen: Not on Friend Feed
paultoo: is already your friend on Friend Feed
willpate: Not on Friend Feed
pacificit: is already your friend on Friend Feed
callkathy: Can’t read their Social Graph
stevegarfield: is already your friend on Friend Feed
sethde: Not on Friend Feed
kevindente: Not on Friend Feed
sachac: Not on Friend Feed
timheuer: is already your friend on Friend Feed
matid: Not on Friend Feed
jbrry: is already your friend on Friend Feed
davebost: is already your friend on Friend Feed
technosailor: is already your friend on Friend Feed
chadfowler: Not on Friend Feed
dlprager: Not on Friend Feed
akselsoft: is already your friend on Friend Feed
tnlnyc: is already your friend on Friend Feed
scottmahan: is already your friend on Friend Feed
tomraftery: is already your friend on Friend Feed
asaunders: is already your friend on Friend Feed
colbad2: Not on Friend Feed
mrinal_desai: is already your friend on Friend Feed
merlene: is already your friend on Friend Feed
duncanriley: is already your friend on Friend Feed
scottkarp: is already your friend on Friend Feed
elsua: is already your friend on Friend Feed
longzheng: is already your friend on Friend Feed
rafe: is already your friend on Friend Feed
chrisgarrett: is already your friend on Friend Feed
byosko: is already your friend on Friend Feed
404 => Net::HTTPNotFound
C:/DOCUME~1/Luciano/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.9/lib/rubyscript2exe.gems/gem
s/mechanize-0.7.5/lib/www/mechanize.rb:186:in `get’
C:/DOCUME~1/Luciano/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.9/lib/twitter2friendfeed/scra
per.rb:34:in `subscribe’
C:/DOCUME~1/Luciano/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.9/lib/twitter2friendfeed/subs
criber.rb:62:in `add_friend’
C:/DOCUME~1/Luciano/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.9/lib/twitter2friendfeed/subs
criber.rb:134:in `twitter_friend’
C:/DOCUME~1/Luciano/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.9/lib/twitter2friendfeed/main
.rb:56:in `run’
C:/DOCUME~1/Luciano/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.9/lib/twitter2friendfeed/main
.rb:55:in `each’
C:/DOCUME~1/Luciano/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.9/lib/twitter2friendfeed/main
.rb:55:in `run’
C:\DOCUME~1\Luciano\eee\eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.9\app\twitter2friendfeed:62:i
n `initialize’
C:\DOCUME~1\Luciano\eee\eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.9\app\twitter2friendfeed:137:
in `new’
C:\DOCUME~1\Luciano\eee\eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.9\app\twitter2friendfeed:137
C:\DOCUME~1\Luciano\eee\eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.9\bootstrap.rb:77:in `load’
C:\DOCUME~1\Luciano\eee\eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.9\bootstrap.rb:77

C:\>
engtech said, on May 16, 2008 at 9:58 am

@ Luciano E. Guerche:

My guess is you were trying to run it while Twitter was down.

It’s getting an HTTP 404 Page not found when trying to add a friend on Twitter.

I should trap 404s so they aren’t fatal.
Veronica Giggey said, on May 20, 2008 at 6:31 pm

Just wanted to say Thanks for this! It worked great, made a world of a difference. I use Twitter every day but with recent outages it’s getting pretty frustrating and more of my contacts are talking about moving conversations to FriendFeed.
Thanks again!
Adam Gershenbaum said, on May 20, 2008 at 6:51 pm

Wow this rocks Thanks!
Stevi Deter said, on May 21, 2008 at 5:20 pm

What a nice program!

My only gripe, and it’s minor, is that running the console app via the Start menu lead it to close before I could read the final stats. But I easily found the log file, which is really nice.
Charlie said, on May 21, 2008 at 5:41 pm

Just running it now. Awesome.
Charlie said, on May 21, 2008 at 5:46 pm

It would be great for the next version if it created an imaginary friend for those tweeps that aren’t on Friendfeed.
On Why FriendFeed Makes A Twitter Replacement Unnecessary at philcrissman.com said, on May 21, 2008 at 6:26 pm

[…] be useful? Not exactly. FriendFeed allows you imaginary friends, and there are even scripts (well, one, at least) to allow you to try to migrate your peoples en […]
Sally said, on May 25, 2008 at 8:19 am

Is there a Mac version available?
Wer tötet Twitter? » zweipunktnull said, on May 25, 2008 at 9:54 am

[…] gibt auch ein Tool, welches in der Lage ist, die Twitter-Kontakte bei FriendFeed zu übernehmen. Natürlich […]
engtech said, on May 26, 2008 at 9:37 am

@ Sally:

No, you can run it in parallels though.
To Tweet or to Friendfeed said, on May 26, 2008 at 5:08 pm

[…] je al even veel info halen uit de comments als uit de basis feed. Ik heb dan ook beslist om mijn Twittervrienden niet over te zetten naar Friendfeed met de tool van Eric, maar zelf mijn Vlaamse vrienden te unsubscriben (sorry mannen) en een Belgische room aan te maken […]
FriendFeed-ing Frenzy | Disgruntled twitterers looking for clearer streams in FriendFeed | BlogSchmog said, on May 28, 2008 at 12:52 am

[…] since the service has not yet achieved a critical mass. I used Internet Duct Tape’s Twitter importer to upgrade my info stream, only to discover about 90% of the members I follow are not using […]
bagatare said, on May 28, 2008 at 5:03 am

thanks for the software.
Two Great Apps That Help Your Network | Fog of Eternity | Website design and discussion said, on May 28, 2008 at 6:09 am

[…] you use Twitter2friendfeed at least. It automatically runs through all of the people you follow on Twitter, and subscribes to […]
DBH said, on May 28, 2008 at 3:39 pm

I keep getting this error. Does this have to do with some Twitter features being down?

Loading friends from Twitter
Twitter::CantConnect

C:/DOCUME~1/******/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.2/lib/rubyscript2exe.gems/gems/twitter-0.2.6-/lib/twitter/base.rb:182:in `request’

C:/DOCUME~1/******/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.2/lib/rubyscript2exe.gems/gems/twitter-0.2.6-/lib/twitter/base.rb:163:in `call’

C:/DOCUME~1/******/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.2/lib/twitter2friendfeed/twitter_ext.rb:34:in `all_friends_lite’

C:/DOCUME~1/******/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.2/lib/twitter2friendfeed/main.rb:37:in `run’

C:\DOCUME~1\******\eee\eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.2\app\twitter2friendfeed:62:in `initialize’

C:\DOCUME~1\******\eee\eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.2\app\twitter2friendfeed:137:in `new’

C:\DOCUME~1\******\eee\eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.2\app\twitter2friendfeed:137

C:\DOCUME~1\******\eee\eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.2\bootstrap.rb:77:in `load’

C:\DOCUME~1\******\eee\eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.2\bootstrap.rb:77
Oliver Gassner said, on May 29, 2008 at 8:31 pm

links for 2008-05-30…

Basic Thinking Blog | brrrr
(tags: icommented barcamps)

Lifestream.fm / oliverg
(tags: iregistered)

Verasage Institute
(tags: metaphors time gtd ****)

How to Import Your Twitter Contacts to Friend Feed « // Internet Duct T…
freethinker said, on June 04, 2008 at 12:57 am

Does it work through “Wine” in linux? I see that your post mentions it, but when I try running it through wine, it doesn’t work, crashes kinda.

1) Installed Fine
2) Ran => wine cmd
3) Ran the .exe, but it didn’t work

Any clues?
malbiniak said, on June 04, 2008 at 7:51 am

I’m getting the same errors as Luciano E. Guerche. Could this be from too many requests per hour? Twitter is still up, and the friends it’s claiming a 404, uh for, are available, too.

None the less – great free utility. Thanks!
malbiniak said, on June 04, 2008 at 7:53 am

follow up – it made it through 49 twitter friends, then died.

404 => Net::HTTPNotFound
C:/DOCUME~1/chewie/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.4/lib/rubyscript2exe.gems/gems
/mechanize-0.7.5/lib/www/mechanize.rb:186:in `get’
C:/DOCUME~1/chewie/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.4/lib/twitter2friendfeed/scrap
er.rb:34:in `subscribe’
C:/DOCUME~1/chewie/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.4/lib/twitter2friendfeed/subsc
riber.rb:62:in `add_friend’
C:/DOCUME~1/chewie/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.4/lib/twitter2friendfeed/subsc
riber.rb:134:in `twitter_friend’
C:/DOCUME~1/chewie/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.4/lib/twitter2friendfeed/main.
rb:56:in `run’
C:/DOCUME~1/chewie/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.4/lib/twitter2friendfeed/main.
rb:55:in `each’
C:/DOCUME~1/chewie/eee/eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.4/lib/twitter2friendfeed/main.
rb:55:in `run’
C:\DOCUME~1\chewie\eee\eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.4\app\twitter2friendfeed:62:in
`initialize’
C:\DOCUME~1\chewie\eee\eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.4\app\twitter2friendfeed:137:i
n `new’
C:\DOCUME~1\chewie\eee\eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.4\app\twitter2friendfeed:137
C:\DOCUME~1\chewie\eee\eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.4\bootstrap.rb:77:in `load’
C:\DOCUME~1\chewie\eee\eee.twitter2friendfeed.exe.4\bootstrap.rb:77
Greg Beck said, on June 06, 2008 at 7:45 am

Great software, but I have the same problem that it dies after the first 404 error, so there’s no way to progress after that point. It would be nice if it would just move on to the next friend.
John Martin said, on June 06, 2008 at 9:09 am

Same problem with 404 error.
Philipp said, on June 11, 2008 at 2:18 am

ive got the same problem :(
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GoaldeeBug said, on June 15, 2008 at 1:50 am

I get the error ‘unable to subscribe’. Can you explain exactly what this means?

Thanks
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Jason said, on June 17, 2008 at 11:45 pm

I am also getting ‘unable to subscribe’. I think FriendFeed changed something that is causing a problem.
Ruth Ferguson said, on June 21, 2008 at 2:24 pm

I agree FF must have changed something becuase now everyone new is unable to subscribe – any idea when the new version or a fix will be released?
Rob de la Cretaz said, on June 23, 2008 at 8:40 pm

I’m having the same errors that were mentioned above.
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[…] this number is much smaller, and therefore should be a little easier to migrate. There is a nice little program by Eric at InternetDuctTape (click on the link to get it yourself!) that searches through all your Twitter contacts, and then […]
Greg Hollingsworth said, on July 01, 2008 at 2:34 pm

I too get “Unable to Subscribe” for the bulk of my returns, any idea when there might be a fix for this?
Chris said, on July 02, 2008 at 4:30 am

I too am getting “unable to subscribe” for every contact, and then I think I’m hitting the API limit and that is causing the app to bug out…

Will be a great tool when it grows up…
Absolutely cracking idea of a tool, just a shame it didn’t work for me.
I’ll definitely be checking back for an update.
Dave Delaney said, on July 02, 2008 at 8:51 pm

Wow, very cool man.
Now is there a way to export import Twitter contacts to LinkedIn? That would be amazing.

Thanks!
Dave
Twitter friends import into FriendFeed « EverythingTwitter said, on July 03, 2008 at 1:31 pm

[…] on July 3, 2008 by EverythingTwitter We do tools that enhance or add to Twitter. This is a great GreaseMonkey script from InternetDucttTape that pulls your subscriptions into FriendFeed so you can better follow […]
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Björn said, on July 08, 2008 at 6:49 am

Sounds good, any plans to make it open source? I feel reluctant to run software that I have found on random googled pages (nothing personal, just principles).
Syncing My Friends, Feeling the Social Media Burn | sarahintampa said, on July 08, 2008 at 7:43 pm

[…] mainly FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, and Identi.ca. It’s not easy. Of course there’s the Twitter 2 FriendFeed Importer, but ultimately, adding contacts is still very much a manual process these days. I tend to batch […]
Jeff McNeill said, on July 09, 2008 at 10:58 am

Keep getting the error “unable to subscribe” for many accounts (also get not on friend feed, can’t read social graph, and already your friend). Any reason for “unable to subscribe”?

Thanks!
Sync Sink « NDNL said, on July 16, 2008 at 8:01 am

[…] I’m syncing my Twitter contacts with my Friendfeed account (that’s a neat one). […]
TesTariTis» Blogarchiv » links for 2008-07-01 said, on July 18, 2008 at 8:42 am

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Twitter Tools said, on July 27, 2008 at 4:46 pm

[…] Import Twitter to FriendFeed: Apparently FriendFeed is being used by a lot of people and this helps you move all your Twitter people over without having to re-add everyone. […]
Mitchell McKenna said, on August 04, 2008 at 9:12 pm

Not working – I’m also getting a lot of the “Unable to Subscribe” messages.
Imaginary Friends über die FriendFeed API erstellen? « KOPIS.DE said, on August 19, 2008 at 2:01 am

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Shawn McCollum said, on October 10, 2008 at 3:01 pm

You can do a pretty good job finding a users friendfeed account via a friendfeed search, then just parse the json.
http://friendfeed.com/api/feed/search?q=%5BTWITTERID%5D+service:twitter

Example
http://friendfeed.com/api/feed/search?q=scobleizer+service:twitter

It would be better if you could search for a link. I think it’s on their roadmap.
Using FriendFeed for it all, broadcasting to Twitter for the users on Dion Almaer's Blog said, on October 31, 2008 at 12:43 am

[…] now though, I could try this sync script and see if it does the […]
Porting social networks into FriendFeed - Emil Sit: Thoughts and Observations said, on December 19, 2008 at 4:45 pm

[…] the FriendFeed usernames of people you are following on Twitter. The best solution seems to be from Internet Duct Tape but it is Windows only, not open source, and also doesn’t create imaginary friends for people […]
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