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12 commentsFriday, May 22, 2009

Why Would Twitter Kill RSS?

Comparing Twitter with Feed Readers

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twitter and rss is diferent

twitter and rss is diferent way. i think they can work together.

Good riddance never liked

Good riddance
never liked you rss

I haven't noticed the

I haven't noticed the sponsor link everytime I'm doing my research. Well, google suggestion is very helpful for me. Everytime I need to research something, I don't need to drain my mind just to think of the right word I need to type in the search engine.

I don't think twitter can

I don't think twitter can kill rss. 140 characters is just too short of a summary.

Twitter and RSS can work together

I use both together. For instance, there are certain people I like to follow closely, I use an RSS feed for their tweets because Twitter is real time and the tweets go by fast. I don't monitor it every second of every day so I miss a lot of them. But with RSS, I can casually go back and read their tweets.

And just to let you know Chris, I monitor a couple of RSS feeds for WebProNews too. That's how I found this post :)

I never even noticed the

I never even noticed the similarities between the two - I thought Twitter was a social media platform, whereas RSS is simply a tool for distributing information dynamically.

I think they both serve different enough purposes to co-exist.

Twitter will not replace rss

Twitter will not replace rss yet, its way too early. Most rss are on blogs and biz websites. Yeh, its not real time info, but historical info has its place as well.

Very informative post

This is really very informative post. One cannot simply compare twitter with RSS or vice versa. Both are different from each other. The biggest difference lies in the way in which information is shared. In twitter, information is shared by manually posting it while it gets automated in rss through rss feed readers. Thus information provided through rss feeds is more fresh and updated.

I remember TechCrunch had a

I remember TechCrunch had a similar story few days ago. I personally stoped using my RSS reader recently since Twitter proven to be much more effective at real time delivery of articles I actually want to reed.

Where did you hear that from?

Yeah, I agree these 2 things are vastly different and I would not see any way that twitter is going to kill RSS. Where did you hear that from anyway? Or did you say that in your post and I missed it?

RE: Where did you hear that from?

I've seen it brought up a number of times over the past six-months to a year. I've been meaning to write about the subject for quite some time, but have finally gotten around to it.

Main difference between RSS

Main difference between RSS and Twitter: No one tries to use RSS as twitter. Tons of people try to use Twitter as RSS

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