Comments on: Twitter Friday: Is Twitter the New RSS?

By: Oscar Del Santo

Oscar Del Santo — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:36:44 +0000

Tad does it again! A great thought-provoking post.

I think that Tweeter is becoming more dependent on tools and apps and the speed with which Tweeter displaces RSS will be heavily dependent on those.

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Is Twitter Overhyped? - Geeky100 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:03:20 +0000

[...] RSS is NOT dead; Twitter has (ironically self-imposed) [...]

By: Mickfuck

Mickfuck — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:14:06 +0000

Twitter suck’s, its full of spammers and hackers, full of rubbish people.

By: Randy Kemp

Randy Kemp — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:44:45 +0000

There are some services – like Tweetfeed and ping.fm – that feed blogs to Twitter. I really think RSS will still be around, but I take a wait and see attitute.
Randy

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Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:36:43 +0000

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By: Kieron Hughes

Kieron Hughes — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:39:51 +0000

Haha, didn’t think you were using my tweet as the basis for a blog article!:)

It’s quite strange really, because I thought of doing a similar article a while back but never actually got round to it.

Interesting sides of the debate. There is pro’s and con’s to both really. Alex touched on a good point in his comment; with RSS you never actually miss an important article, because it will still be waiting for you (in the case of Google Reader anyway) when you next log in. With Twitter you can miss important posts as they may have been posted while you were offline, and unless retweeted, may never appear again.

The thing I love about Twitter is that it is an instant gateway to a huge amount of content. Even if you have never read a particular blog before, or heard of the person, Twitter somehow connects you to them through a series of friend circles.

Nice article, cheers.

By: Alex Juel

Alex Juel — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:17:24 +0000

I think Twitter is a great place to get news, but there is just too many other things going on in my stream for me to feel like it’s useful for industry news, or not as complete of a resource to replace my feeds. It’s great for trending topics though.

In Google Reader I can subscribe to only news/article updates without having to worry about missing what all the other SEO’s out there posted throughout the day.