Do You Still Use RSS Readers?
Until a few weeks ago, I used Google Reader to follow different RSS feeds for news and blogs. Now, I use Twitter full-time to read the news and get engaged. I don’t think that I’ll go back to use any RSS Reader until a major change happens. Why?
Twitter is extremely fast compared to RSS Readers. If you follow the different news accounts on Twitter, you can see the newly published articles as soon as it is published. In Google Reader, it at least takes a few minutes before it shows up.
Don’t you hate it when Google Reader shows you 1000 unread messages? Using Twitter in a specific way, I don’t get to waste my time reading useless articles. Yes, there are such useless contents on the internet. If you follow the right people, the ones that you respect their opinion, they retweet the articles that are worth reading. If there is a piece that no one retweeted, this article is probably not very useful. But of course, there is the possibility that no one had a chance to read it yet.
There are services such as TwitterFeed that forwards RSS feeds to your Twitter and Facebook accounts. I think that this is a neat service, however, it won’t filter the posts for me as the people that I follow do. It is still worth a try.
RSS is NOT dying. RSS is used as a back-end for a lot of technologies that we use on a daily basis such as Facebook.
Do you still use RSS readers? Why?
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I used to use google reader religiously. Without it I felt like I was missing out on what was going on in the world. Then I found that most of the RSS sites i followed (techcrunch, arstechnica, huffpost,appleinsider, etc…) all had twitter accounts and I could just follow them on twitter.
Once I started to use twitter kind of like rss, I realized I could find other interesting people interested in the same topics as me and actually use twitter to find out *more* about whats going on on *more* sites that others link to that I may never have watched/found just using RSS.
That being said, Google has introduced some cool features into google reader to make it more social. You can follow friends and see what they share. I think this shows that even google realized the potential of following other people and networking with the things they share/find online.
Good Post!