> As Twitter discovered, its style of writing doesn't fit into the model of RSS.<p>It doesn't?<p>> People were disappointed when they stopped publishing tweets via RSS. But this was the right thing to do, in hindsight. It wasn't working.<p>Why wasn't it working?<p>I'll admit I've never used Twitter's RSS feeds—because at the time it was around, I was a teenager with no use for RSS. But I can't imagine why RSS as a protocol would be unable to represent tweets.<p>Whether any given RSS reader has an optimal UI for <i>displaying</i> tweets is another matter. But the great thing about interoperable protocols is that the content and client are separate. The client can be adapted and improved to fit your needs, if you want.