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I have never been able to get RSS to work for me - I'd always subscribe to a bunch of feeds, then they'd pile up into hundreds of unread posts, and then I'd jus

by athst 15y ago

I have never been able to get RSS to work for me - I'd always subscribe to a bunch of feeds, then they'd pile up into hundreds of unread posts, and then I'd just go numb to it and end up visiting the site itself like I did before. But now, Twitter has filled this hole for me - most every site or writer of significance has a Twitter feed, and it's easy to follow them. I don't feel obligated to read down this huge stack of accumulated posts, so there aren't any mental barriers to use it. In addition, you read the content on the site itself, in the format that it was meant for (or you add it to Instapaper). Twitter is sorta like RSS for normal humans.

kayoone 15y ago
Exactly. With RSS i never got into the habit of checking it consistently because there was just too much stuff i did not care about so quickly i dismissed it. With twitter i follow great people from all the areas i am interested in and they usually have very interesting stuff to say and share. So if something is interesting i will just email it to me. I have tried Instapaper to save interesting stuff for later reads but then i have the same problem of not checking it again after some time because i dont have much time to check it and the stuff piles up. With emails i need to get my inbox clean and will check the article and then eventually save it to Instapaper if its long or worth a reread.