I now subscribe to most blogs on Twitter, and RSS is still part of that, its just that it is: blogs -> rss -> rss2twitter gateway -> twitter -> me So it has b

I now subscribe to most blogs on Twitter, and RSS is still part of that, its just that it is: blogs -> rss -> rss2twitter gateway -> twitter -> me So it has become a backend technology, and RSS has been given a better marketing term - 'following' (or 'subscribing'). It just isn't being directly consumed by users any more, which is why you don't need it as an icon in apps, but RSS is definitely still being consumed by other apps. I found that the problem with most newsreaders wasn't the technology or terminology, but that they presented news items in an email view - ie. every item needs to be actioned, whereas the answer was a stream where you scan and interesting items were actions. The other problem was discovery. Nobody really worked out how to recommend other sources or feeds from within the reader applications. Twitter kinda accidentally nailed both of those issues.