Upon further research, Twitter and the FB News Feed came out within 2 months of each other, Twitter coming first. However, the News Feed was the first truly suc

Upon further research, Twitter and the FB News Feed came out within 2 months of each other, Twitter coming first. However, the News Feed was the first truly successful version of it. I wouldn't say that a news feed and RSS are synonymous. RSS was not accessible, nor was it really for distributing user created content, it was more for blog posts and news. Those aren't the type of communications I was talking about.