Why I left my RSS reader for Twitter

      by Wyatt Walter

Okay, so Twitter and RSS are not in any way competing technologies or services, but I’ve used Twitter to replace my RSS reader. While I can’t fully replace an RSS reader with Twitter since some blogs have Twitter, but almost all have an RSS feed, I have been able to get a majority of the ones I care about. If you have a blog and a Twitter account, but don’t have them merged, I’d highly suggest you do. There are plenty of tools out there like the Twitter plugin for Wordpress.

While I have given up a bit of freedom in not being able to get feeds to every blog, I do gain in being able to also see posts that the author of a blog that I follow also finds interesting, but didn’t necessarily want to write a blog entry about (i.e., microblogging :) ). It also allows me to see updates from my friends as well as updates from blogs, sites, or organizations that I am interested in without having to go to several different places around the web. It also helps to have a desktop application for Twitter so you get notifications when there’s new activity. I use Tweetie on my MacBook and really like it for its simplicity, but there plenty of others to choose from.

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