-Tweeper is a web scraper which extracts the most recent public tweets of
-a given user from their home page on Twitter.com and formats them in RSS, so
-the information can be conveniently accessed and collected by a feed reader.
-
-Since Jun 11th 2013 Twitter.com retired their API v1.0, so it's not possible
-to access a user timeline via RSS anymore, and it's also become mandatory to
-authenticate via OAuth to access this _public_ information in JSON format:
+Tweeper is a web scraper which can be used to conveniently follow the public
+activity of social network users without the need to log in or even be
+subscribed to the social network; tweeper converts the public information to
+RSS so that it can be accessed and collected by a feed reader.
+
+Since Jun 11th 2013, when Twitter.com retired their API v1.0, it has not been
+possible anymore to access a user timeline via RSS, and it has also become
+mandatory to authenticate via OAuth to access this _public_ information in the
+JSON format:
https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/16289
https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/11564
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