Contrary to what this
writer
thinks, Twitter is not a replacement for RSS. The whole idea of RSS is
to not miss stuff. If a writer you like publishes online once every 3
months, that article will be there in your RSS reader, almost impossible
to miss.
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Contrary to what this writer thinks, Twitter is not a replacement for RSS. The whole idea of RSS is to not miss stuff. If a writer you like publishes online once every 3 months, that article will be there in your RSS reader, almost impossible to miss.
Imagine the odds of seeing the Tweet announcing that once every 90 days post. It’s 90% likely you’ll miss it.
Twitter was founded as a social network. The whole idea originally was share what you are doing right now. Twitter originally was most famous for pictures of what you were having for lunch. The use case has shifted over time, and a lot of people use it for content discovery. It’s not a horrible tool for discovery because the really interesting stuff often gets re-tweeted enough that you can’t miss it. However, the lifespan of content on Twitter is measured in days, if not hours. If you are following a few hundred people on Twitter good luck finding that thing you saw last week, if you didn’t favorite it or otherwise save it outside of Twitter when you originally saw it. Twitter is mostly noise, and little signal.
RSS is critical infrastructure for the web. Google may have ultimately done us a favor by canceling Reader. It reminded us that RSS is important, and that maybe we had been taking it for granted.
Contrary to what this writer thinks, Twitter is not a replacement for RSS. The whole idea of RSS is to not miss stuff. If a writer you like publishes online once every 3 months, that article will be there in your RSS reader, almost impossible to miss.
Imagine the odds of seeing the Tweet announcing that once every 90 days post. It’s 90% likely you’ll miss it.
Twitter was founded as a social network. The whole idea originally was share what you are doing right now. Twitter originally was most famous for pictures of what you were having for lunch. The use case has shifted over time, and a lot of people use it for content discovery. It’s not a horrible tool for discovery because the really interesting stuff often gets re-tweeted enough that you can’t miss it. However, the lifespan of content on Twitter is measured in days, if not hours. If you are following a few hundred people on Twitter good luck finding that thing you saw last week, if you didn’t favorite it or otherwise save it outside of Twitter when you originally saw it. Twitter is mostly noise, and little signal.
RSS is critical infrastructure for the web. Google may have ultimately done us a favor by canceling Reader. It reminded us that RSS is important, and that maybe we had been taking it for granted.
Contrary to what this writer thinks, Twitter is not a replacement for RSS. The whole idea of RSS is to not miss stuff. If a writer you like publishes online once every 3 months, that article will be there in your RSS reader, almost impossible to miss.
Imagine the odds of seeing the Tweet announcing that once every 90 days post. It’s 90% likely you’ll miss it.
Twitter was founded as a social network. The whole idea originally was share what you are doing right now. Twitter originally was most famous for pictures of what you were having for lunch. The use case has shifted over time, and a lot of people use it for content discovery. It’s not a horrible tool for discovery because the really interesting stuff often gets re-tweeted enough that you can’t miss it. However, the lifespan of content on Twitter is measured in days, if not hours. If you are following a few hundred people on Twitter good luck finding that thing you saw last week, if you didn’t favorite it or otherwise save it outside of Twitter when you originally saw it. Twitter is mostly noise, and little signal.
RSS is critical infrastructure for the web. Google may have ultimately done us a favor by canceling Reader. It reminded us that RSS is important, and that maybe we had been taking it for granted.
I talk to countless people about their possession of marijuana charge and in many instances one of the first things I hear is that the marijuana wasn’t theirs. Unfortunately, that’s a losing defense. Let me add the caveat that every case depends on the facts and circumstances of each unique case, and it could work […]
I began my recent weekend in Roanoke, VA, with a stop at the Roanoke Railhouse Brewery. The brewery opens their tap room on Friday and Saturday afternoons, so I planned my travel to arrive in town early enough on Friday to enjoy a pint or two of t…
Tom Keifer, as I would expect most of my readers to know, was the lead
singer of Cinderella back in the day. This is his first solo album. It
was worth the wait. Mixing bluesy rockers that would fit in perfectly on
the last two Cinderella albums with a…
Tom Keifer, as I would expect most of my readers to know, was the lead singer of Cinderella back in the day. This is his first solo album. It was worth the wait. Mixing bluesy rockers that would fit in perfectly on the last two Cinderella albums with a few very well done rootsy, country tinged ballads, Tom has comeback to the rock world with a fantastic album that deserves far more attention than it will probably get. Let’s hope I’m wrong about that last part.
Tom Keifer, as I would expect most of my readers to know, was the lead singer of Cinderella back in the day. This is his first solo album. It was worth the wait. Mixing bluesy rockers that would fit in perfectly on the last two Cinderella albums with a few very well done rootsy, country tinged ballads, Tom has comeback to the rock world with a fantastic album that deserves far more attention than it will probably get. Let’s hope I’m wrong about that last part.
Tom Keifer, as I would expect most of my readers to know, was the lead singer of Cinderella back in the day. This is his first solo album. It was worth the wait. Mixing bluesy rockers that would fit in perfectly on the last two Cinderella albums with a few very well done rootsy, country tinged ballads, Tom has comeback to the rock world with a fantastic album that deserves far more attention than it will probably get. Let’s hope I’m wrong about that last part.
