Comments on: Is Twitter Killing RSS?

By: Eabi579

Eabi579 — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:42:53 +0000

i guess it is not really sure how though D=

By: Vivek Singhal

Vivek Singhal — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:05:22 +0000

How does Twitter kill RSS? The majority of the people who come to my site do not use Twitter, but anybody can see an RSS feed.

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By: Vivek Singhal

Vivek Singhal — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:05:22 +0000

How does Twitter kill RSS? The majority of the people who come to my site do not use Twitter, but anybody can see an RSS feed.

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By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:36:40 +0000

I don’t see that Twitter will kill RSS. Don’t know about you folks but I find that when I’m able to login to Twitter, nearly all tweets are ads of one sort or another.

By: Karan Singhal

Karan Singhal — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:45:49 +0000

Twitter is not even close to replacing my RSS feeds. Targeted Traffic & Website Promotion Services

By: MikeKDidit

MikeKDidit — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:56:49 +0000

Twitter will not kill RSS, just as RSS has not killed e-mail. While I definitely see value in Twitter, RSS is way better suited for my needs as a reader. With RSS, I can effectively keep up with what has grown to over 500 feeds. While I only religiously read about 50 of the feeds (including Remarkablogger , a good RSS reader allows me to quickly skim hundreds (or even thousands) of posts. RSS feed previews — most of which are longer than 140 characters — save me time and help me quickly determine if I will click to read the full post. I’m thinking that most of the bloggers I follow like having more than 140 characters with which to influence whether I read their full posts. When I get behind on my reading, I can quickly skim previews for one feed or for all feeds with a given tag (which equates to a folder in Google Reader). Finally, I love reading a preview of a podcast and having the link to the MP3 right there. If the preview seems interesting, I download. If not, I mark it read and move on. So, for me, Twitter will not kill RSS. Personally, I think the better question is whether Twitter will kill e-mail. It won’t, but I think that is a better question.

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:12:16 +0000

It’s interesting, because I’ve taken this same course. I cleared out my reader and then ended up loading it back up again. I just haven’t found a good alternate method. I have, however, surveyed my visitors, and I’ve been told more than once that they just follow me on Twitter and do not use RSS any longer either, so it definitely seems to be going around. RSS readers can be overwhelming. Just get more liberal with clicking “mark all as read”. That does the trick for me

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:23:49 +0000

Great points, Danny. It’s no wonder Disqus is gaining in popularity, as it does a good job of integrating all that business. I’ve thought about using it here.

By: Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:59:35 +0000

I don’t think Twitter has killed RSS, or blog subscriptions in general (like email options). Twitter is great as a teaser for a blog post, and I see a lot of my traffic come from there.

Where I do think Twitter is having an adverse effect on blogs is in the comments section (present company excluded, obviously!). I find a lot of visitors read the post then respond via Twitter, as opposed to leaving a comment. It’s cool that the post is still being discussed, but it’d be even cooler if it was being discussed in the comments where everyone could join in.

By: Petrut Luigi

Petrut Luigi — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:15:48 +0000

My answer is “YES, it’s killing RSS”.