Twitter is the new RSS

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.

What Twitter is awful at – <i>awful</i> – 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.<p>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.

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.

On a side note. Interestingly Twitter is retiring their public RSS feed. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5543246" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5543246</a>

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.

The OP is right.<p>Twitter has replaced RSS for most people, most of whom never used RSS in the first place.<p>That does not mean that Twitter is superior to RSS, though. I loathe Twitter and love RSS. It makes me upset that Twitter is winning, but that doesn't mean that the OP's headline is wrong.

A new RSS should be about open standards and not about a single entity locking down all data. Also, Twitter has too much noise. Even if you're careful about following people who tweet good things, quite often you end up seeing "pooping"-style tweets.<p>Having said that, Twitter should really be doing what Prismatic is doing. I find the discover tab to be largely a #fail. With all the data that Twitter has about me, they should be surfacing interesting things, but they don't.

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

For me twitter is more an indicator of what's happening now than anything useful for what's happened over the past couple days. It's more or less the internet equivalent to the water cooler

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

Except it's a terrible RSS reader. No thanks.

Lol, it's so ridicoulos. Especially when read this news in RSS feed :)

I'm reading this article on Feedly

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