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Strange, I kind of feel the opposite way about Twitter. I can paste any website's URL to Google Reader to subscribe to that site's RSS feed. What kind of a st
by kennu 16y ago
Strange, I kind of feel the opposite way about Twitter.
I can paste any website's URL to Google Reader to subscribe to that site's RSS feed.
What kind of a standard way is there to find out the Twitter feed of a random website or blog I happen to run across and want to follow? Do I search for the author's name on Twitter? Can I be sure I get all the posts and not some other crap he's tweeting?
- roc 16y agoSure, it's potentially as tricky to find a twitter stream from a website, as to find an RSS feed. But that's not the primary use model. And where there is a twitter icon, the one-click-follow is a universal secondary use that requires no clients or third party services. The primary use for Twitter is to find feeds directly on Twitter. Either by searching or by seeing who your friends follow. Which is what most people do. They sort through what their friends follow and pick and choose from that. Adding a few additional feeds here and there, but those being the minority. That's what Google Reader's social widgets were trying to replicate. That's what Buzz was trying to replicate. Discovering feeds from friends. Because most users don't discover new sources for themselves.