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For me it was the following two comments. It just showed me this was the type of person who is obsessed with following the latest news and keeping up with all
by Periodic 15y ago
For me it was the following two comments. It just showed me this was the type of person who is obsessed with following the latest news and keeping up with all their feeds. It's an edge use-case, and not one I subscribe to (pun intended).
I combined that with my usual e-mail communications and my regular scans of Twitter in order to figure out what was going on during the day.
Twitter is basically an RSS feed, and many people even more obsessively than coffee.
Others may say that they can avoid the all-day-long RSS time suck by only opening their clients once per day, but I argue that it still piles up redundant content that you now have to waste time going through all at once.
Of course, Twitter never has redundant content or an echo-chamber effect.
- chipsy 15y agoBoth Twitter and RSS have the advantage of letting you decide on your sources, so you have some options for lowering redundancy that don't occur in (more) centralized aggregation like HN or Reddit. I only got into Twitter relatively recently and find it a better option than RSS, overall. Blogs are weighted down by the expectation of being their own content; tweets are mostly about linking or short updates, and following someone with good links can be a really great experience.