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Twitter Crushes RSS with Personality

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Re: Twitter Crushes RSS with Personality

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Post by closetgeekshow »

i don't use rss to follow people, i use it to follow output from particular publications and blogs i'm interested in. i don't think i'd gain any usefulness by displaying an avatar pic, i'm just trying to stay up to date on the happenings in the various affinity networks i'm part of or peripherally interested in.

Re: Twitter Crushes RSS with Personality

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Post by codva »

I think the real reason why Twitter crushes RSS is that RSS is an open standard that is hard to monetize. Twitter is increasingly a closed ecosystem that only Twitter can make money on, which give Twitter plenty of motivation to throw it's resources into a closed network and not an open standard.

Re: Twitter Crushes RSS with Personality

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Post by codva »

locopati wrote: post #4

Who says RSS is fading? Are twitter posts of years ago accessible via a simple link as are links obtained via RSS? These are honest questions and not snark.

Twitter sort of hides the RSS links, and last time I checked did not provide any documentation on how to find them. But they are there and you can access Twitter feeds via RSS once you figure out the URL pattern.

Re: Twitter Crushes RSS with Personality

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Post by k3n »

closetgeekshow wrote: post #2

i don't use rss to follow people, i use it to follow output from particular publications and blogs i'm interested in. i don't think i'd gain any usefulness by displaying an avatar pic, i'm just trying to stay up to date on the happenings in the various affinity networks i'm part of or peripherally interested in.

Agreed, RSS is for actual information consumption while Twitter is for '@seeing and #beingseen #selfpromotion please RT! #lame @rss_will_always_be_better_for_objective_content'.
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