I would go one step further and say that, especially for twitter, I prefer the 3rd party methods.  If you depend on twitter to provide the RSS feed then when they withdraw it you&#x27;re screwed.  But if you&#x27;re already using a non-TOS-compliant workaround, twitter has to go out of their way to break it and when they do people who care enough will find another way to get the content they want.  Information wants to be free.