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Twitter and Facebook killed RSS. It's a far friendlier interface for people to keep up with news and people they find interesting. Geeks may be lamenting the lo
by marknutter 14y ago
Twitter and Facebook killed RSS. It's a far friendlier interface for people to keep up with news and people they find interesting. Geeks may be lamenting the loss of Google Reader, but they make up a very small percentage of the internet population these days. When I suggest that Twitter/Facebook is the new RSS I often catch a lot of flack for it, but honestly, that's how far more people consume information than any other service.
- camus 14y ago> When I suggest that Twitter/Facebook is the new RSS please explain how twitter and facebook are open protocols so i can suscribe facebook or twitter feeds on the long run without my facebook/twitter reader client breaking because of changes in the api or without having to create an account on their plateform. RSS exists because it allows free flow of information. I dont recall facebook or twitter being open plateforms that promote interoperability.
- marknutter 14y agoYou're missing the point entirely. You are correct, they are not open protocols you can subscribe blah blah blah; ask a non hacker news reader if they care about any of that. You're answer will be "no". Twitter/Facebook are RSS for non techies, and they far outnumber non-techies.
- illicium 14y agoI can't subscribe to <insert-generic-Wordpress-blog-here> with Twitter/Facebook. With RSS, content authors only have to update their websites and not worry about crossposting to a social feed.
- marknutter 14y agoThat's exactly what "following" is.
- anigbrowl 14y agoIt's a far friendlier interface for people to keep up with news and people they find interesting. A preference for having things automatically sorted into neat categories may not be as unusual as you think.