Comments on: Twitter Is Taking Over For RSS http://techgeist.net/2009/09/twitter-rss/ Tech of Today, Trends of Tomorrow Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:20:52 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Bill Greenberg - Good Computer Guy http://techgeist.net/2009/09/twitter-rss/comment-page-1/#comment-5383 Bill Greenberg - Good Computer Guy Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:01:32 +0000 http://techgeist.net/?p=5108#comment-5383 Um, yeah - I read this because of my RSS reader. Not Twitter, where it probably would have been buried under all the other crap on there. Um, yeah – I read this because of my RSS reader. Not Twitter, where it probably would have been buried under all the other crap on there.

]]> By: Curt Grymala http://techgeist.net/2009/09/twitter-rss/comment-page-1/#comment-5332 Curt Grymala Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:41:38 +0000 http://techgeist.net/?p=5108#comment-5332 I simply cannot see Twitter being a replacement for RSS. Twitter is great for discovering new content and new sites, but it just doesn't cut it for trying to keep track of sites you already follow. Let's say I'm away from the Internet for two days. With RSS, I can easily check out all of the articles I missed from my favorite sites over those two days. However, with Twitter, I have to sift through all of the unnecessary crap, hoping that the site owner tweeted about each post in which I might be interested. Personally, I'll stick with RSS for subscriptions and keep Twitter for discovering new things and conversing with people. I simply cannot see Twitter being a replacement for RSS. Twitter is great for discovering new content and new sites, but it just doesn’t cut it for trying to keep track of sites you already follow.

Let’s say I’m away from the Internet for two days. With RSS, I can easily check out all of the articles I missed from my favorite sites over those two days. However, with Twitter, I have to sift through all of the unnecessary crap, hoping that the site owner tweeted about each post in which I might be interested.

Personally, I’ll stick with RSS for subscriptions and keep Twitter for discovering new things and conversing with people.

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