I've actually caught myself using twitter as my rss reader now as well. Only problem is timing and having too many people that you follow. For bloggers, I think www.switchabit.com is a good service to distribute your blog posts to twitter and auto-code them with a bit.ly link so you can track who came in from your twitter posting.
berreb
· 8 months ago
Very good idea ;) Followed.
dvolatility
· 8 months ago
It's definitely mine
AndyFinkle
· 8 months ago
Thanks Fred - I have always felt that RSS should stand for Really STUPID syndication ...It is IMO a "lazy" method that "grandma" would never use. Following @AVC now :-)
twitter.com/A_F
New West Living
· 8 months ago
The fact that Ashton Kutcher is the king of Twitter should tell you something about Twitter. Since when narcissism and inanity have become cool?
I mean seriously what sorts of substances you guys are on? Is it mescaline?
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
There's many ways to use twitter. Some will use it the way cite. Others use it as an RSS reader. Others use it to keep in touch with friends and family
Don't judge a book by its cover
Noah David Simon
· 8 months ago
Ashton Kutcher gets sloppy seconds. leave twitter while the going is good. Bruce Willis had the right idea... twitter ain't virgin territory
Noah David Simon
· 8 months ago
Amen Brother! twitter is for lemmings who follow. need feed? be a man... get a Room! a friendfeed room
just like the anus sniff crowd to fall for a social network without community walls.
BillSeitz
· 8 months ago
You don't need a room, just an account, and you tie your twitter acct and your blog feed to it. Then both show up. (Then add last.fm, delicious, flickr, goodreads....)
RacerRick
· 8 months ago
Thank you... about time!
RacerRick
· 8 months ago
I hope it doesn't say "new blog post" every time... I'd prefer to see a longer title/summary before the link.
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
I'll fix that
RacerRick
· 8 months ago
Suggestion... u could also "pass links" through to Twitter/AVC using delicious toolbar and Twitterfeed.
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
I like to do that via my main twitter account
Prokofy
· 8 months ago
Yes, I gave up reading Google Reader a long time ago. Is it ok to stop feeling guilty now?
Except I might come back now that they have this thing "Google Profile" where you can share the Google Reader items more easily. Except after doing this once and seeing 10 other people do it creating even deeper news feeds than the surface of Twitter and FB, I had to stop.
Noah David Simon
· 8 months ago
hi Prokofy!
push it to the next level! twitter is yesterdays news. I'm glad they kicked me off
Diego Sana
· 8 months ago
Good call Fred, i'm all for twitter killing rss readers. Just a note: it's really easy to do this using twitterfeed, but usually it takes a while after you post on your blog before the link make it to twitter (for instance, right now your new post "When A Key Man Leaves The Firm" it's not there yet); So, since twitter is all about real-time, you might want to look at a plugin for your blogging plataform that submits your updates to twitter in the moment you publish a new post.
Noah David Simon
· 8 months ago
foolish to count on friends for RSS. it could be considered brainwashing
bill_roberts
· 8 months ago
I still keep up with my 'regular' bloggers through Google Reader, but I'm finding Twitter more and more useful for pointers to interesting writers and articles that I wasn't aware of - a kind of blog discovery service. Since I try to follow interesting people, I get lots of really interesting stuff to read, but it's not comprehensive enough to replace a regular RSS reader.
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
I agree
Scott Yates
· 8 months ago
Thank you for doing this. I'm thisclose to unfollowing TechCrunch and a few others because so many of the tweets are the same as my RSS feed.
Yours is the elegant way to do it. There are plenty of Twitter IDs to go around.
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Followed.
twitter.com/A_F
I mean seriously what sorts of substances you guys are on? Is it mescaline?
Don't judge a book by its cover
leave twitter while the going is good.
Bruce Willis had the right idea...
twitter ain't virgin territory
twitter is for lemmings who follow.
need feed?
be a man...
get a Room! a friendfeed room
just like the anus sniff crowd to fall for a social network without community walls.
Except I might come back now that they have this thing "Google Profile" where you can share the Google Reader items more easily. Except after doing this once and seeing 10 other people do it creating even deeper news feeds than the surface of Twitter and FB, I had to stop.
push it to the next level!
twitter is yesterdays news.
I'm glad they kicked me off
Yours is the elegant way to do it. There are plenty of Twitter IDs to go around.