Type in a Twitter username to find the RSS feed and user ID.

This page is designed to fetch that hard to find User ID for a Twitter user. Additionally it also creates the link to the RSS/Atom status timeline feed for them.

It is possible to use the screen name instead of the ID for the feed, but won't work if somebody has a name the same as someone else's ID, so using this method is probably better.

Everything is done with JavaScript via jQuery and AJAX, this should mean that all the queries come from the users (that's you that is) instead of this site, which means it won't reach Twitter's hourly request limit and die. The code behind it could definitely be improved, but hey, it works. It also means that none of us need an API key.