> For many people, like me, Twitter has replaced most of the functionality of a reader. I still get the same information, but it's pushed to me, nicely curated,

> For many people, like me, Twitter has replaced most of the functionality of a reader. I still get the same information, but it's pushed to me, nicely curated, by people I follow. I'm completely baffled by comments like this. I've tried subscribing to feeds that have just headlines or headline and one sentence and I end up never reading them. Almost all the feeds I read have full text and the rest have at least 100 words of the content per post, not 140 characters, so I can tell if it's worth clicking on. Sites like reddit (or HN) which have voting and a decent commenting system add value, but Twitter? I'm actually turned off when I read some thoughtful blog post somewhere and at the end it says "if you liked this, follow me on Twitter." Yeah, thanks, but no, I must have mistaken you for someone who could form complete sentences.