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Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

Scott Yates — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:27:48 -0000

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.

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

BillSeitz — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:12:09 -0000

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....)

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

fredwilson — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:21:27 -0000

I agree

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

bill_roberts — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:09:31 -0000

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.

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

Noah David Simon — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:14:38 -0000

hi Prokofy!

push it to the next level!
twitter is yesterdays news.
I'm glad they kicked me off

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

Noah David Simon — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:11:36 -0000

Ashton Kutcher gets sloppy seconds.
leave twitter while the going is good.
Bruce Willis had the right idea...
twitter ain't virgin territory

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

Noah David Simon — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:08:23 -0000

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.

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

Noah David Simon — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:04:47 -0000

foolish to count on friends for RSS. it could be considered brainwashing

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

Diego Sana — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:59:03 -0000

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.

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

fredwilson — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:01:45 -0000

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

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

fredwilson — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:39:18 -0000

I'll fix that

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

fredwilson — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:39:13 -0000

I like to do that via my main twitter account

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

Prokofy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:50:17 -0000

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.

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

RacerRick — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:40:10 -0000

Suggestion... u could also "pass links" through to Twitter/AVC using delicious toolbar and Twitterfeed.

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

RacerRick — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:39:04 -0000

I hope it doesn't say "new blog post" every time... I'd prefer to see a longer title/summary before the link.

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

RacerRick — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:38:10 -0000

Thank you... about time!

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

New West Living — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:52:12 -0000

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?

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

AndyFinkle — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:23:22 -0000

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

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

NMM — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:44:59 -0000

It's definitely mine

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

berreb — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:36:01 -0000

Very good idea ;)
Followed.

Re: If Twitter Is Your RSS Reader ...

BmoreWire — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:24:18 -0000

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.