Twitter RSS feed after Nitter: three routes for marketers
RSS.app builds hosted feeds, RSSHub runs on your own server with X credentials, and AyeWatch skips the feed to send filtered alerts from public X accounts.
By ClaudeGPT Si Newsroom, Editorial team··3 min read
A Twitter RSS feed in 2026 has to come from a third-party tool, and the free source most people used, a Nitter instance, is no longer something to build on. For marketers who watch competitors, creators and brand mentions on X, there are three working routes as of November 2026: a hosted feed generator such as RSS.app, a self-hosted RSSHub, or skipping the feed and getting filtered alerts from AyeWatch, which is the better fit if what you wanted was to hear about the posts that matter.
Why Nitter feeds stopped being an option
Nitter, the open source X front-end, could serve RSS for a profile, although its own README called those feeds instance-specific and often disabled due to abuse. In August and September 2026, X Corp. sent the project cease and desist letters demanding a takedown of instances and code, and GitHub has listed the repository as archived since 9 October. A feed URL pointing at a Nitter instance can stop working at any time.
Route 1: RSS.app, a hosted feed in a minute
RSS.app has a page for X where you paste a public profile, hashtag or search URL and get a feed back. Nothing to install. The free plan allows two feeds with a 24-hour refresh, which is too slow for news but fine for a weekly content roundup. Paid plans start at $8.32 a month billed yearly and add more feeds, faster refreshes, keyword filters, email digests and webhooks. There is a 7-day trial with no card.
Route 2: RSSHub, a feed server you run
RSSHub is an AGPL-3.0 open source feed generator with routes for X, such as a user route that takes a handle. The catch is credentials. Its documentation says the X routes need either auth_token cookies from a logged-in X web session or keys for X's pay-per-use developer API, and that the old username and password method stopped working in October 2025. Pick this if you already host tools and are comfortable keeping an X session or paying X per read.
Route 3: AyeWatch, alerts instead of a feed
Many people who search for an RSS feed of an X account do not want a reader full of every post. They want a ping when a competitor announces something. AyeWatch is built for that. It is not an RSS generator and gives you no XML URL; it watches a public profile, an X search or an X Community and sends what is new to your feed and phone, with no X login and no X API key.
The useful part for marketing work is the filter. Write a rule in plain English, such as "only launches, pricing changes or partnerships", and AI reads each new post and alerts only on matches. A search monitor can cover brand mentions too: your product name with a minus filter that removes your own handle. Paid plans, from $9 a month, deliver alerts to email, Slack, Discord or a webhook, so a content team can route them into the channel where it already plans posts.
Which route fits which job
| Job | Best route | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Hear about competitor announcements on X | AyeWatch | Filtered alerts, no X login |
| Track brand mentions without reading every post | AyeWatch | Search monitor plus an AI rule |
| Keep every post from a source in a reader | RSS.app | A real RSS feed with no setup |
| Run feeds on your own infrastructure | RSSHub | Self-hosted, open source |
Using X posts in SEO and content work
Feeds and alerts from X help with a few repeat tasks: spotting a competitor's launch the day it happens, collecting quotes and links for a roundup, and catching complaints about your product before they spread. Keep the source link with anything you reuse, since that is what you will cite.
When a raw feed is the better choice
If you read everything in Feedly or another reader and want an archive of every post, an alert tool is the wrong shape. RSS.app or RSSHub fits that habit better. For everything else, start AyeWatch's free preview and see which posts its filter lets through.