From my personal experience, twitter is not a good medium for keeping track of news. Unless you follow less than 100 people who tweet moderately, the volume of

From my personal experience, twitter is not a good medium for keeping track of news. Unless you follow less than 100 people who tweet moderately, the volume of tweets is overwhelming. Often it takes more time to scan through tweets rather than articles because, first the URLs have to opened by the browser which is an additional step from RSS reader. Also in the case of RSS you know pretty much the kind of stories that a site is going to post but when you follow someone you will most likely get a wide variety of tweets, lot of which you will not be interested in. When an important story breaks, twitter becomes an even bigger echo chamber than RSS because some 10s of people will be linking to techcrunch, another bunch will be linking to the nytimes coverage and weeding out these dupes is painful