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Twitter. I'm not kidding. I don't understand why this is overlooked so much.
by 27182818284 14y ago
Twitter.
I'm not kidding. I don't understand why this is overlooked so much.
- slater 14y agoBecause you're comparing an open, royalty-free technology with something a company controls? Ask former 3rd-party twitter client makers how they feel about Twitter, Inc. these days ;)
- 27182818284 14y agoOn a grid-by-grid feature list it loses, but Twitter is EXACTLY what is used by millions of people instead of RSS. They subscribe to Regexp facts instead of an RSS feed of facts. Instead of CNN RSS they subscribe to CNN Breaking News, etc.
- ChrisClark 14y agoCan Twitter give me a full list of only headlines that link directly to the article? Not in any of the current clients. Ok, I could write a new client that does that, and be limited by Twitter's API, to be cut off at any point. And even if I had an information dense client I wrote for myself, does every website automatically post every article of theirs, headline only to Twitter, and refrain from any other postings or comments? Can't force them to do that. Twitter is not a good replacement for a lot of the RSS use cases.
- AznHisoka 14y agoIt's definitely not. RSS is great because nobody owns it. I can pull feeds from whatever websites I want. Don't need to worry about rate-limited (ie Twitter), or being banned by some algorithm (ie Google)
- chc 14y agoI don't believe anyone said it was good, but it is what people use instead. Worse is better.