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This will be nice for those of us who use twitter as simply a news stream rather than a social tool. If I like a blog, I'd rather click the follow button on th
by agscala 15y ago
This will be nice for those of us who use twitter as simply a news stream rather than a social tool. If I like a blog, I'd rather click the follow button on the blog itself rather than looking up the username and doing it through the twitter profile page.
- esrauch 15y agoWhat advantages are there for using twitter rather than RSS for this purpose?
- akkartik 15y agoNobody uses RSS. I know because I struggled for months to build a more understandable feedreader (http://readwarp.com http://readwarp.com).
- kellysutton 15y agoI've found that many companies use RSS as an organizational format behind-the-scenes, but no consumers actually use it.
- zalew 15y agoI know what's your point, but I do use rss constantly and I don't find your page very usable, so maybe that's not the problem with your app.
- akkartik 15y agoYeah it was intended for people who don't understand RSS (or who, like me, subscribe to 800 feeds. The problems are the same at both ends of the spectrum). And yes I'm sure there's lots wrong with it. I built a recommendation system, but I stopped hacking on it when I realized that people liked a story more if I lied that their friend shared it. That's what twitter has: social proof.
- zalew 15y agowhat I wanted to say is, your app needs a designer's touch. f.ex. http://goodnoows.com/ http://goodnoows.com/ has a nice feeeling (although I don't use it, partly because I even can't import my netvibes opml in there)
- akkartik 15y agoYeah that's valid, thanks for the opinion. I also built http://hackerstream.com http://hackerstream.com, so this is a more general problem with my design skills. I don't have opml import either, but if you mail me your opml I'll set you up with an account (email in profile; let me know what username you want)
- gchucky 15y agoOh come on. We've had this discussion about RSS before (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2060298 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2060298 was the last big one), and plenty of people are using it in some capacity.
- akkartik 15y agoPerhaps I should have rephrased: few people use RSS. Orders of magnitude fewer than those using twitter. Do you agree?
- evgen 15y agoAn order of magnitude fewer people use RSS than use Twitter, but fewer people use Twitter for the use case that RSS serves than use RSS for that purpose.
- akkartik 15y agoI disagree. I think more people get their news from Twitter by following people they want to receive news from. What's more, the number of such people grows everyday, far faster than for RSS.
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