Bloglines is dead. I never used it, but it’s a household name. I’ve also read that “visits to Google Reader are down 27 percent year-over-year.” Khoi Vin says about RSS: “ultimately I think its evolution augurs even more exciting things.”
I also hear people say in my Twitter stream on a regular basis how they use RSS less and less and that “Twitter is the new RSS.” I’m sure Facebook devotees have thought the same thing, if they ever used an RSS reader to begin with.
I personally don’t find any other technology or service a suitable replacement to RSS feeds and my RSS reader. I love it when people share cool links on Twitter, but that’s not my “source” of news and current information. If a tweet goes down past the bottom of that window, it’s gone forever. I extremely rarely scroll down through time and catch up on old tweets. With RSS however, I read them oldest-to-newest, so I don’t miss anything interesting I might want to read.
I think of Twitter and RSS as completely different. As such, I assume that other people do too. I don’t tweet about every single thing that I publish on my blogs. I don’t want to turn into a link-spewing self-promotional robot, which is what I would become if I tweeted every single article I published and every single other article I read that I found interesting. I don’t have any particular rules about how I use Twitter, I’m just saying don’t count on my Twitter stream as a reliable source of links to my content.
I don’t really want to tell you how to use Twitter either, but, if we are going to replace RSS with something else, can it please please please not be Twitter?
I agree with you on that one. Twitter is not the new RSS. One could easily miss some content on twitter. RSS and the RSS readers make it clear if there’s new content and what I have read and not. Though I find a lot of interesting stuff on Twitter it’s more of a supplement and finding those extra things.
Not replacing RSS and Google Reader just yet!
Hi Chris,
First of all, congratulations for your work, I learned (and keep on learning) a lot thanks to CSS-Tricks.
May I ask you what is your RSS Reader ? And do you know how to get back in your RSS Reader the news that has already disappeared in the RSS Feed ?
Hope I made myself clear.
I spend most of my days with Google Reader up all day long. I hope it doesn’t go away any time soon because it’s definitely my main source of news. I also hope they don’t end up folding it into gmail because I find those two things to be very separate functions.
I’m not sure that RSS is something that the mass public will ever consume directly but that doesn’t mean it has to go away.
I would like to think it depends on a twitter page while you tweet under you name many ppl add a twetter account for their business would this change the your prespective of twitter as your new “RSS” you would expect all post and info about that page to be post and pretty much be real time feed. what you think?
What use are blogs without RSS readers?
I don’t think the web-junkies like ourselves (I have roughly 400 subscriptions in google reader) will allow RSS to be supplanted. I actually go to the trouble of demanding RSS feeds for webapps, networks, etc. which could use, but don’t have them.
Hi Chris! I’ll be delighted if you read this. I just wanted to say that I think Twitter should be used as it is advertised: a micro-blogging platform. And should not be used as the ‘new RSS’. And anyway there is a limit of 140 characters. And if Twitter was used just to send a bunch of links, then there would be a LOTS of spam on Twitter.
And RSS readers are used to make getting the information you are interested about all in one place and easily. For example you have to visit a hundred websites everyday to read about stuff that’s interesting. So, to get all that information in one place and so that you have to just visit one website or just open one application, and Tada! Everything you feel is interesting is in front of you.
Please feel free to reply on my comment or to criticize by comment (I don’t mind it at all) or to add something to it.
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I agree. 90% of my newsfeeds are used for education/work, not for fun (or news!) and I hardly ever get a blog post that isn’t informative, since it takes time to write them. I do get plenty of tweets that I don’t care about, even from insightful people.
Accomplishing some shopping and noticed your web site appears a bit messed up in my K-meleon internet browser. But thankfully hardly anyone uses it any lengthier but you may possibly would like to appear into it.
I just found this through Google. Twitter is so much fun and this is very helpful. I’m always on the lookout for twitter toys. I’ll check back soon, Thanks!
Absolutely agree with you. For serious stuff will keep usig RSS and Google Reader