Twitter is the new RSS

#1

Post by pytrin » Wed, May 01, 2013, 11:17 AM UTC

Re: Twitter is the new RSS

#2

Post by mschuster91 » Wed, May 01, 2013, 11:24 AM UTC

I disagree - for me Twitter is more a social network than a "news source". It's hard enough to keep track of my current timeline (I already can't read a backlog of more than 6 hours! Sucks!), I don't even want to imagine how my TL would look like if I'd follow even one major news site.

Re: Twitter is the new RSS

#3

Post by nkozyra » Wed, May 01, 2013, 11:27 AM UTC

In that Twitter is essentially "syndicated," sure. Beyond that?

Re: Twitter is the new RSS

#4

Post by swombat » Wed, May 01, 2013, 11:29 AM UTC

No, it's not. RSS is a way to make sure you don't miss stuff from authors who produce new content relatively rarely. Twitter drowns such content in a torrent of crap.

Re: Twitter is the new RSS

#5

Post by v0lta » Wed, May 01, 2013, 11:31 AM UTC

If you just follow some people maybe. But with 100+ Follows it may be quite time-consuming if you're trying not to miss something.

Re: Twitter is the new RSS

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Post by niyogi » Wed, May 01, 2013, 11:32 AM UTC

true and not true.

rss is has no single "owner of platform" and poses no rate limits. twitter has both.

Re: Twitter is the new RSS

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 01, 2013, 11:34 AM UTC

niyogi wrote: post #6

true and not true. rss is has no single "owner of platform" and poses no rate limits. twitter has both.

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Re: Twitter is the new RSS

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Post by dantheman » Wed, May 01, 2013, 11:35 AM UTC

mschuster91 wrote: post #2

I disagree - for me Twitter is more a social network than a "news source". It's hard enough to keep track of my current timeline (I already can't read a backlog of more than 6 hours! Sucks!), I don't even want to imagine how my TL would look like if I'd follow even one major news site.

You can use lists to manage that.

Re: Twitter is the new RSS

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Post by wladimir » Wed, May 01, 2013, 11:36 AM UTC

swombat wrote: post #4

No, it's not. RSS is a way to make sure you don't miss stuff from authors who produce new content relatively rarely. Twitter drowns such content in a torrent of crap.

Indeed. I use both, but for quite different purposes. Twitter to get sense of what is going on right now and RSS to keep tabs on my favorite blogs, some of which may post very rarely. Twitter just has too much noise to be suitable for the second purpose, and tends to lose tweets after a few days. Also not all blog authors tweet, but every blog I know has access through RSS.

Re: Twitter is the new RSS

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Post by unalone » Wed, May 01, 2013, 11:36 AM UTC

What Twitter is awful at – awful – is ensuring you see content from people who don't update frequently. RSS is valuable not for following content gluttons like Hacker News, but for following blogs by people who update only once every three months, or even more rarely.

News gluttonry never needed RSS anyway – generally you only need one source of neverending news as-is. RSS is for more selective reading, and its advantage lies in how it gives equal weight to people who don't publish often as it gives to people who post 50 new entries a day.