RSS or Twitter
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- visual_infection
Yesterday I opened up my google reader and found that I had, I think like 200 unread items. I open twitter and I have no unread tweets. I am realizing that I use twitter more for reading and discovering articles and content that interests me.
Is anybody else finding the same thing? Or are you using them as a combo platter of information?
- fadein110
RSS is dying inmho
- ********0
I find the problem with RSS is that I subscribe to too much stuff, which leaves me with 1000+ things to read every time I open Google Reader. With Twitter, I'm on it casually just about every day reading something, so there's no overwhelming feeling of, "Shit, I have 1000+ unread articles." I like Twitter for the community filtering aspect.
- +1 on the subscribe to too much stuff, I don't even follow personal friends on twitter to avoid clutter
visual_infection - following friends on twitter that only post personal stuff is shit. "im at my house" I DONT GIVE A F*CKk_temp
- +1 on the subscribe to too much stuff, I don't even follow personal friends on twitter to avoid clutter
- visual_infection0
So if RSS is dying, is Twitter the new way for business/brands to broadcast/distribute content? Or then are you being too spammy?
Is it a fine balance between discussion and pushing your own content?
- DrBombay0
Twitter can't replace rss, at a certain point tweets leave your radar. You guys may not use RSS anymore but that doesn't make it obsolete.
- monNom0
RSS doesn't lend itself well to inane tedious little posts about nothing. by it's nature, RSS tends toward higher-quality content.
Twitter:
@blowfish LOLZorz #funny #gaga #randomRSS:
Chrysler pays off govenrment loan years ahead of schedule.
- visual_infection0
But don't people use Twitter to broadcast higher quality content, then discuss it or other users disseminate it?
Twitter:
@Chrysler pays off government loan years ahead of schedule http://bit.ly/8skj0
- k_temp0
twitter is like apple, rss is like pc.
- ********0
first world problems.
i use rss to populate a twitter account.
rss is here to stay
comparing twitter to rss in a worse/better format is ridiculously unfounded and your "problem" has everything to do with your own browsing habits- Oh, I totally understand it's a first world problem. I guess I have been thinking about it alotvisual_infection
- from an end user (myself) and from a content creation standpointvisual_infection
- bjladams0
i suppose they're all tools and it depends on what you prefer using.
most of our clients have asked that the rss icons/links either be taken off their sites, or hidden far into it, and that the twitter icons be made more prevalent.
personally- i've only checked my rss feeds perhaps 2x's this year.